The Thirty-seventh United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate

United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of the United States, and together with the United States House of Representatives comprises the United States Congress. The composition and powers of the Senate are established in Article One of the U.S. Constitution. Each...

 and the United States House of Representatives

United States House of Representatives

The United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...

. It met in Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....

 from March 4, 1861 to March 4, 1863, during the first two years of Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union, while ending slavery, and...

's presidency

President of the United States

The President of the United States of America is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces....

. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives

United States House of Representatives

The United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...

 was based on the Seventh Census of the United States in 1850

United States Census, 1850

The United States Census of 1850 was the seventh census of the United States. Conducted by the Bureau of the Census on June 1, 1850, it determined the resident population of the United States to be 23,191,876 — an increase of 35.9 percent over the 17,069,453 persons enumerated during the 1840...

. Both chambers had a Republican

Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...

 majority.

Major events

• March 1861 – July 1861:
  • Jefferson Davis
    Jefferson Davis
    Jefferson Finis Davis , also known as Jeff Davis, was an American statesman and leader of the Confederacy during the American Civil War, serving as President for its entire history. He was born in Kentucky to Samuel and Jane Davis...
    
     called up 100,000 militia;
  • Rebels fired on Fort Sumter, SC
    Fort Sumter
    Fort Sumter is a Third System masonry coastal fortification located in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. The fort is best known as the site upon which the shots initiating the American Civil War were fired, at the Battle of Fort Sumter.- Construction :...
    
    . Lincoln suspended habeas corpus from Washington, D.C.
    Washington, D.C.
    Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
    
    , to Philadelphia and called called up 75,000 militia.
  • Four more Southern states withdrew
    Confederate States of America
    The Confederate States of America was a government set up from 1861 to 1865 by 11 Southern slave states of the United States of America that had declared their secession from the U.S...
    
     from Congress:
    • Virginia Secession Convention enacted an Ordinance of Secession
      Ordinance of Secession
      The Ordinance of Secession was the document drafted and ratified in 1860 and 1861 by the states officially seceding from the United States of America...
      
       on April 17; ratified by popular referendum on May 23.
    • Arkansas
      Arkansas in the American Civil War
      The state of Arkansas was a part of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War, and provided a source of troops, supplies, and military and political leaders for the fledgling country. Arkansas had become the 25th state of the United States, on June 15, 1836, entering as a...
      
       Secession Convention enacted an Ordinance of Secession
      Ordinance of Secession
      The Ordinance of Secession was the document drafted and ratified in 1860 and 1861 by the states officially seceding from the United States of America...
      
       on May 6.
    • Tennessee Secession Convention enacted an Ordinance of Secession
      Ordinance of Secession
      The Ordinance of Secession was the document drafted and ratified in 1860 and 1861 by the states officially seceding from the United States of America...
      
       on May 6; ratified by popular referendum on June 8.
    • North Carolina Secession Convention enacted an Ordinance of Secession
      Ordinance of Secession
      The Ordinance of Secession was the document drafted and ratified in 1860 and 1861 by the states officially seceding from the United States of America...
      
       on May 20.
  • Union forces lost First Bull Run, Va
    First Battle of Bull Run
    First Battle of Bull Run, also known as First Manassas , was fought on July 21, 1861, in Prince William County, Virginia, near the City of Manassas...
    
    .

• August 1861 – March 1862:
  • Union blockade
    Union blockade
    The Union Blockade, or the Blockade of the South, took place between 1861 and 1865, during the American Civil War, when the Union Navy maintained a strenuous effort on the Atlantic and Gulf Coast of the Confederate States of America designed to prevent the passage of trade goods, supplies, and arms...
    
     of the South began at Fort Monroe, Va
    Fort Monroe
    Fort Monroe was a military installation in Hampton, Virginia—at Old Point Comfort, the southern tip of the Virginia Peninsula...
    
    ; Davis began suspending habeas corpus at Norfolk.
  • Union forces won Mississippi River Fort Henry, Tn
    Battle of Fort Henry
    The Battle of Fort Henry was fought on February 6, 1862, in western Tennessee, during the American Civil War. It was the first important victory for the Union and Brig. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in the Western Theater....
    
     and Fort Donelson, Tn
    Fort Donelson
    Fort Donelson was a fortress built by the Confederacy during the American Civil War to control the Cumberland River leading to the heart of Tennessee, and the heart of the Confederacy.-History:...
    
    ;
  • Ironclad ‘USS Monitor
    USS Monitor
    USS Monitor was the first ironclad warship commissioned by the United States Navy during the American Civil War. She is most famous for her participation in the Battle of Hampton Roads on March 9, 1862, the first-ever battle fought between two ironclads...
    
    ’ maintained blockade in the Hampton Roads, Va
    Battle of Hampton Roads
    The Battle of Hampton Roads, often referred to as either the Battle of the Monitor and Merrimack or the Battle of Ironclads, was the most noted and arguably most important naval battle of the American Civil War from the standpoint of the development of navies...
    
    ; Union forces took Port Royal, SC
    Battle of Port Royal
    The Battle of Port Royal was one of the earliest amphibious operations of the American Civil War, in which a United States Navy fleet and United States Army expeditionary force captured Port Royal Sound, South Carolina, between Savannah, Georgia and Charleston, South Carolina, on November 7, 1861...
    
    . Davis initiated conscription.

• April 1862 – August 1862:
  • Union forces captures New Orleans, La; Rebels turned back at Shiloh, Tn
    Battle of Shiloh
    The Battle of Shiloh, also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, was a major battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, fought April 6–7, 1862, in southwestern Tennessee. A Union army under Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant had moved via the Tennessee River deep into Tennessee and...
    
    .
  • Union blockade closes Savannah, Ga
    Battle of Fort Pulaski
    The Battle of Fort Pulaski was fought April 10–11, 1862, during the American Civil War. Union forces on Tybee Island and naval operations conducted a 112-day siege, then captured the Confederate-held Fort Pulaski after a 30-hour bombardment. The battle is important for innovative use of rifled guns...
    
    ; Union forces occupied upper Mississippi River Island #10, Tn
    Battle of Island Number Ten
    The Battle of Island Number Ten was an engagement at the New Madrid or Kentucky Bend on the Mississippi River during the American Civil War, lasting from February 28 to April 8, 1862. The position, an island at the base of a tight double turn in the course of the river, was held by the Confederates...
    
    .
  • Union forces lost Peninsular Campaign to capture Richmond; Union forces lost Second Bull Run, Va near Washington, D.C..

• September 1862 – March 1863:
  • Rebel invasion was turned back at Antietam, Md
    Battle of Antietam
    The Battle of Antietam , fought on September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and Antietam Creek, as part of the Maryland Campaign, was the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Northern soil. It was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with about 23,000...
    
    ; Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation
    Emancipation Proclamation
    The Emancipation Proclamation is an executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War using his war powers. It proclaimed the freedom of 3.1 million of the nation's 4 million slaves, and immediately freed 50,000 of them, with nearly...
    
    .
  • In midterm elections, Democrats gained 31 House seats to 31%, lost 5 Senate seats to 19%..
  • Union forces lost at Fredericksburg, Va
    Battle of Fredericksburg
    The Battle of Fredericksburg was fought December 11–15, 1862, in and around Fredericksburg, Virginia, between General Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and the Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside...
    
    ; Rebels lost at Murfreesboro, Tn; Lincoln initiates conscription.

Two special sessions

The Senate, a continuing body, was called into special session by President Buchanan, meeting in March 1861, to address national issues. It confirmed calling forth troops and raising money. The border states and Texas were still represented. Shortly after the Senate session adjourned, Fort Sumter was attacked. The immediate results were to draw four additional states "into the confederacy with their more Southern sisters", and Lincoln called Congress into extraordinary session on the Fourth of July, 1861.

Both Houses then duly met July 4, 1861. Seven states which would send representatives held their state elections for Representative over the months of May to June 1861. Members taking their seats had been elected before the secession crisis, during the formation of the Confederate government, and after Fort Sumter.

Once assembled with a quorum in the House, Congress approved Lincoln's war powers innovations as necessary to preserve the Union. Following the July Federal defeat at First Manassas, the Crittenden Resolution asserted the reason for "the present deplorable civil war." It was meant as an address to the nation, especially to the Border States at a time of U.S. military reverses, when the war support in border state populations was virtually the only thing keeping them in the Union.

Following resignations and expulsions occasioned by the outbreak of the Civil War, five states had some degree of dual representation in the U.S and the C.S. Congresses. Congress accredited Members elected running in these five as Unionist (19), Democratic (6), Constitutional Unionist (1) and Republican (1).
All ten Kentucky and all seven Missouri representatives were accepted. The other three states seated four of thirteen representatives from Virginia, three of ten Tennessee, and two of four from Louisiana.

The Crittenden Resolution declared the civil war "… has been forced upon the country by the disunionists of the southern States…" and it would be carried out for the supremacy of the Constitution and the preservation of the Union, and, that accomplished, "the war ought to cease". Democrats seized on this document, especially its assurances of no conquest or overthrowing domestic institutions (emancipation of slaves).

Slaves and slavery

In the first regular session, Republicans superseded the Crittenden Resolution. Congressional policy and military strategy were intertwined.

steps to emancipation - by Congress and Generals

On May 24, 1861, General Benjamin Butler

Benjamin Franklin Butler (politician)

Benjamin Franklin Butler was an American lawyer and politician who represented Massachusetts in the United States House of Representatives and later served as the 33rd Governor of Massachusetts....

 at Fort Monroe, Virginia at the mouth of the Hampton Roads, had declared slaves escaped into his lines as contraband

Contraband (American Civil War)

Contraband was a term commonly used in the United States military during the American Civil War to describe a new status for certain escaped slaves or those who affiliated with Union forces after the military determined that the US would not return escaped slaves who went to Union lines to their...

 of war, that is, forfeit to their rebel owners. On May 24, Congress followed General Butler's lead, and passed the First Confiscation Act

Confiscation Act of 1861

The Confiscation Act of 1861 was an act of Congress during the early months of the American Civil War permitting the confiscation of any of property, including slaves, being used to support the Confederate insurrection....

 in August, freeing slaves used for rebellion. John C. Frémont

John C. Frémont

John Charles Frémont , was an American military officer, explorer, and the first candidate of the anti-slavery Republican Party for the office of President of the United States. During the 1840s, that era's penny press accorded Frémont the sobriquet The Pathfinder...

 in Missouri exceeded his authority, declaring all slaves held by rebels would be freed. Congress responded on opening day. After the opening prayer, December 2, Sen. Lyman Trumbull

Lyman Trumbull

Lyman Trumbull was a United States Senator from Illinois during the American Civil War, and co-author of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.-Education and early career:...

 introduced a bill for confiscation of rebel property and emancipation for their slaves. "Acrimonious debate on confiscation proved a major preoccupation" of Congress.

On March 13, 1862, Congress directed the armies of the United States to stop enforcing the Fugitive Slave Act. The next month, the Congress abolished slavery in the District of Columbia

District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act

The District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act, or simply Compensated Emancipation Act, was a law that ended slavery in Washington, D.C. by paying slave owners for releasing their slaves. Although not written by him, the act was signed by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln on April 16, 1862...

 with compensation for loyal citizens. An additional Confiscation Act in July

Confiscation Acts

The Confiscation Acts were laws passed by the United States Congress during the Civil War with the intention of freeing the slaves still held by the Confederate forces in the South....

 declared free all slaves held by citizens in rebellion, but it had no practical effect without addressing where the act would take effect, or how ownership was to be proved. Emancipation politicians and political generals:

Lincoln's preliminary Emancipation Proclamation was issued September 22, 1862. It became the principle issue before the public in the mid-term elections that year for the 38th Congress. But Republican majorities in both houses held (see 'Congress as a campaign machine' below), and the Republicans actually increased their majority in the Senate.

On January 1, 1863, the war measure by executive proclamation directed the army and the navy to treat all escaped slaves as free when entering Union lines from territory still in rebellion. Congress passed enabling legislation to carry out the Proclamation including "Freedman's Bureau" legislation.

Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War

Congress assumed watchdog responsibilities with this and other investigating committees.


The principle conflict between the president and congress was found in the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War. Eight thick volumes of testimony were filled with investigations of Union defeats and contractor scandals.

They were highly charged with partisan opinions "vehemently expressed" by chair Benjamin Wade of Ohio, Representative George Washington Julian of Indiana, and Zachariah Chandler of Michigan.

Sen. Chandler, who had been one of McClellan's advocates promoting his spectacular rise, particularly documented criticism of McClellan's Peninsular Campaign with its circuitous maneuvering, endless entrenchment and murderous camp diseases. It led to support for his dismissal.

A congressional committee could ruin a reputation, without itself having any military expertise. It would create the modern Congressional era in which generals fought wars with Congress looking over their shoulders, "and with public opinion following closely behind."

Republican Platform goals

Republican majorities in both houses, apart from pro-union Democrats, and without vacant southern delegations, were able to enact their party platform. These included the Legal Tender Act, February 20, 1862, and increases in the tariff that amounted to protective tariffs. The Homestead Act, May 20, for government lands, and the Morrill Land Grant Act, July 2, for universities promoting practical arts in agriculture and mining, had no immediate war purpose. But they would have long range effects, as would the Pacific Railroad Act, July 1, for a transcontinental railroad.

Treasury innovations were driven by Secretary Salmon P. Chase and necessity of war. The income tax of 1861, numerous taxes on consumer goods such as whiskey, and a national currency all began in Civil War Congresses.

Congress as election machinery

Member's floor speeches were not meant to be persuasive, but for publication in partisan newspapers. The real audience was the constituents back home. Congressional caucuses organized and funded political campaigns, publishing pamphlet versions of speeches and circulating them by the thousands free of postage on the member's franking privilege. Party congressional committees stayed in Washington during national campaigns, keeping an open flow of subsidized literature pouring back into the home districts.

Nevertheless, like other Congresses in the 1850s and 1860s, this Congress would see less than half of its membership reelected.
The characteristic turmoil found in the "3rd Party Period, 1855-1896" stirred political party realignment in the North even in the midst of civil war. In this Congress, failure to gain nomination and loss at the general election together accounted for a Membership turnover of 25%.

This Congress in the generations cycle

This first Civil War Congress would be nearing the last of those with pluralities held by members of the “Transcendental” Generation, born 1792-1821. They amounted to 87% of national leadership, with 12% from the upcoming Gilded [Age], and only 1% elder Compromise Generation.

As an age cohort, they were idealistic and exalted “inner truth” on both sides. Neither Transcendentalist-led belligerent in the civil war would back down. Those few Compromisers left with a voice were pushed out of the way. Representative Thaddeus Stevens was typical of their northern expression, “Instruments of war are not selected on account of their harmlessness … lay waste to the whole South.”

In the Congresses following 1870, the “Gilded” generation, in their turn, will choose materialism over the Transcendentalists ideals and their bloodshed, skipping the civic-minded stage of other generational cycles in American history.

Major legislation

States admitted

• December 31, 1862: West Virginia
  West Virginia
  West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian and Southeastern regions of the United States, bordered by Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Ohio to the northwest, Pennsylvania to the northeast and Maryland to the east...
  
   admitted, Sess. 3, ch. 6, (Became a state on June 20, 1863)

Territories organized

• February 24, 1863: Arizona Territory
  Arizona Territory
  The Territory of Arizona was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from February 24, 1863 until February 14, 1912, when it was admitted to the Union as the 48th state....
  
   organized, Sess. 3, ch. 56,
• March 3, 1863: Idaho Territory
  Idaho Territory
  The Territory of Idaho was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from March 4, 1863, until July 3, 1890, when the final extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Idaho.-1860s:...
  
   organized, Sess. 3, ch. 117,

Territories extended

• July 14, 1862: Nevada Territory
  Nevada Territory
  The Territory of Nevada was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from March 2, 1861, until October 31, 1864, when it was admitted to the Union as the State of Nevada....
  
   extended, Sess. 2, ch. 12,

Secession

Congress did not accept secession

Secession in the United States

Secession in the United States can refer to secession of a state from the United States, secession of part of a state from that state to form a new state, or secession of an area from a city or county....

. Most of the Representatives and Senators from states that attempted to secede left Congress; those who took part in the rebellion were expelled.

• Secessions declared during previous Congress: South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas.
• Secessions declared during this Congress:
  • April 17, 1861: Virginia
    Virginia
    The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...
    
     (The pro-Union Restored Government of Virginia
    Restored government of Virginia
    The Restored Government of Virginia, or the Reorganized Government of Virginia, was the Unionist government of Virginia during the American Civil War. From 1861 until mid-1863 it met in Wheeling, and from 26 August 1863 until June 1865 it met in Alexandria...
    
    's two Senators and three Representatives were seated.)
  • May 6, 1861: Arkansas
    Arkansas
    Arkansas is a state located in the southern region of the United States. Its name is an Algonquian name of the Quapaw Indians. Arkansas shares borders with six states , and its eastern border is largely defined by the Mississippi River...
    
    
  • May 20, 1861: North Carolina
    North Carolina
    North Carolina is a state located in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte...
    
    
  • June 8, 1861: Tennessee
    Tennessee
    Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States. It has a population of 6,346,105, making it the nation's 17th-largest state by population, and covers , making it the 36th-largest by total land area...
    
     (Sen. Andrew Johnson
    Andrew Johnson
    Andrew Johnson was the 17th President of the United States . As Vice-President of the United States in 1865, he succeeded Abraham Lincoln following the latter's assassination. Johnson then presided over the initial and contentious Reconstruction era of the United States following the American...
    
     and three members of the House did not recognize secession and retained their seats.)

Party summary

The count below identifies party 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. Changes resulting from subsequent replacements are shown below in the "Changes in membership" section.

Senate

House of Representatives

Affiliation	Party						Total
	Constitutional Unionist (CU)	Democratic Democratic Party (United States) The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous... (D)	Independent Democratic (ID)	Republican Republican Party (United States) The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S... (R)	Unionist Unionist Party (United States) The Union Party was a fusion political party conceived by Republicans in 1861 to combine people of all political affiliations into a single movement committed to the preservation of the Union and to war. Republicans wanted to project an image of wartime nonpartisanship and they also expected to... (U)	Other		Vacant
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Senate

• President: Hannibal Hamlin
  Hannibal Hamlin
  Hannibal Hamlin was the 15th Vice President of the United States , serving under President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War...
  
   (R)
• President pro tempore of the Senate
  President pro tempore of the United States Senate
  The President pro tempore is the second-highest-ranking official of the United States Senate. The United States Constitution states that the Vice President of the United States is the President of the Senate and the highest-ranking official of the Senate despite not being a member of the body...
  
  : Solomon Foot
  Solomon Foot
  Solomon Foot was a Vermont lawyer, state representative and later senator who spent more than 25 years in elected office. He graduated from Middlebury College in 1826 and was admitted to the bar in 1831. He served as a state representative briefly in 1833, and also from 1836 to 1838...
  
   (R)

House of Representatives

• Speaker
  Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
  The Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, or Speaker of the House, is the presiding officer of the United States House of Representatives...
  
  : Galusha A. Grow
  Galusha A. Grow
  Galusha Aaron Grow was a prominent U.S. politician, lawyer, writer and businessman, and was Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1861 to 1863. He was defeated for reelection in 1862...
  
   (R)

Members

This list is arranged by chamber, then by state. Senators are listed in order of seniority, and Representatives are listed by district.

Senate

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

Classes of United States Senators

The three classes of United States Senators are currently made up of 33 or 34 Senate seats. The purpose of the classes is to determine which Senate seats will be up for election in a given year. The three groups are staggered so that one of them is up for election every two years.A senator's...

, which indicate the cycle of their election. In this Congress, Class 1 meant their term ended with this Congress, requiring reelection in 1862; Class 2 meant their term began in the last Congress, requiring reelection in 1864; and Class 3 meant their term began in this Congress, requiring reelection in 1866.

Arkansas

• 2. William K. Sebastian
  William King Sebastian
  William King Sebastian was an American planter, lawyer, and U.S. senator from Helena, Arkansas. He represented Arkansas as a U.S. Senator, Democrat, from 1848 to 1861....
  
   (D), until July 11, 1861, vacant thereafter
• 3. Charles B. Mitchel
  Charles B. Mitchel
  Charles Burton Mitchel was a Democratic Party politician from Arkansas who represented the state in the U.S...
  
   (D), until July 11, 1861, vacant thereafter

California

• 1. Milton S. Latham
  Milton Latham
  Milton Slocum Latham was an American politician, and served as the sixth Governor of California and as a member of the federal U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate. Latham holds the distinction of having the shortest governorship in California history, lasting for five days between...
  
   (D)
• 3. James A. McDougall
  James A. McDougall
  James Alexander McDougall was an American attorney and politician elected to statewide office in two U.S. states, then to the United States House of Representatives and United States Senate...
  
   (D)

Connecticut

• 3. La Fayette S. Foster
  Lafayette S. Foster
  Lafayette Sabine Foster was a nineteenth-century American politician and lawyer from Connecticut...
  
   (R)
• 1. James Dixon
  James Dixon
  James Dixon was a United States Representative and Senator from Connecticut.-Biography:Born in Enfield, Connecticut, Dixon pursued preparatory studies, and graduated from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts in 1834, where he had been a charter member of The Kappa Alpha Society. He was...
  
   (R)

Delaware

• 1. James A. Bayard, Jr.
  James A. Bayard, Jr.
  James Asheton Bayard, Jr. was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic Party, who served as U.S. Senator from Delaware.-Early life and family:...
  
   (D)
• 2. Willard Saulsbury, Sr.
  Willard Saulsbury, Sr.
  Willard Saulsbury, Sr. was a lawyer and politician from Georgetown, in Sussex County, Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic Party, who served as Attorney General of Delaware, U.S...
  
   (D)

Illinois

• 2. Stephen A. Douglas
  Stephen A. Douglas
  Stephen Arnold Douglas was an American politician from the western state of Illinois, and was the Northern Democratic Party nominee for President in 1860. He lost to the Republican Party's candidate, Abraham Lincoln, whom he had defeated two years earlier in a Senate contest following a famed...
  
   (D), until June 3, 1861
  • Orville H. Browning
    Orville Hickman Browning
    Orville Hickman Browning was a Republican Senator from Illinois.-Biography:Browning was born February 10, 1806 in Cynthiana, Kentucky. He was a veteran of the Black Hawk War. Browning was a Whig delegate to the anti-Nebraska convention held at Bloomington, Illinois, in May 1856...
    
     (R), June 26, 1861 – January 12, 1863
  • William A. Richardson
    William Alexander Richardson
    William Alexander Richardson was a prominent Illinois Democrat politician before and during the American Civil War....
    
     (D), from January 30, 1863
• 3. Lyman Trumbull
  Lyman Trumbull
  Lyman Trumbull was a United States Senator from Illinois during the American Civil War, and co-author of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.-Education and early career:...
  
   (R)

Indiana

• 1. Jesse D. Bright
  Jesse D. Bright
  Jesse David Bright was the ninth Lieutenant Governor of Indiana and U.S. Senator from Indiana who served as President pro tempore of the Senate on three separate occasions...
  
   (D), until February 5, 1862
  • Joseph A. Wright
    Joseph A. Wright
    Joseph Albert Wright was the tenth Governor of the U.S. state of Indiana from December 5, 1849 to January 12, 1857, most noted for his opposition to banking. His positions created a rift between him and the Indiana General Assembly who overrode all of his anti-banking vetoes...
    
     (U), February 24, 1862 – January 14, 1863
  • David Turpie
    David Turpie
    David Battle Turpie was an American politician.Turpie was born in Hamilton County, Ohio. He grew up in Ohio and graduated from Kenyon College in 1848. He studied law and moved to Logansport, Indiana where he set up a law practice...
    
     (D), from January 14, 1863
• 3. Henry S. Lane
  Henry Smith Lane
  Henry Smith Lane was a United States Representative, Senator, and the 13th Governor of Indiana; he was by design the shortest-serving Governor of Indiana, having made plans to resign the office should his party take control of the Indiana General Assembly and elect him to the United States Senate...
  
   (R)

Iowa

• 3. James Harlan
  James Harlan (senator)
  James Harlan was a member of the United States Senate and a U.S. Cabinet Secretary.-Biography:Harlan represented the state of Iowa in the United States Senate as a member of the Free Soil Party in 1855. In 1857 the Senate declared the seat vacant because of irregularities in the legislative...
  
   (R)
• 2. James W. Grimes
  James W. Grimes
  James Wilson Grimes was an American politician, serving as the third Governor of Iowa and a United States Senator from Iowa.-Biography:...
  
   (R)

Kansas

• 3. Samuel C. Pomeroy
  Samuel C. Pomeroy
  Samuel Clarke Pomeroy was an American Republican Senator from Kansas in the mid-19th century, serving in the United States Senate during the American Civil War. Pomeroy served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives...
  
   (R), from April 4, 1861
• 2. James H. Lane
  James H. Lane (Senator)
  James Henry Lane also known as Jim Lane was a partisan during the Bleeding Kansas period that immediately preceded the American Civil War. During the war, Lane served as a United States Senator and as a general who fought for the Union...
  
   (R), from April 4, 1861

Kentucky

• 2. Lazarus W. Powell
  Lazarus W. Powell
  Lazarus Whitehead Powell was the 19th Governor of Kentucky, serving from 1851 to 1855. He was later elected to represent Kentucky in the U.S. Senate from 1859 to 1865....
  
   (D)
• 3. John C. Breckinridge
  John C. Breckinridge
  John Cabell Breckinridge was an American lawyer and politician. He served as a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from Kentucky and was the 14th Vice President of the United States , to date the youngest vice president in U.S...
  
   (D), until December 4, 1861
  • Garrett Davis
    Garrett Davis
    Garrett Davis was a U.S. Senator and Representative from Kentucky.Born in Mount Sterling, Kentucky, Garrett Davis was the brother of Amos Davis. After completing preparatory studies, Davis was employed in the office of the county clerk of Montgomery County, Kentucky, and afterward of Bourbon...
    
     (U), from December 23, 1861

Maine

• 2. William P. Fessenden
  William P. Fessenden
  William Pitt Fessenden was an American politician from the U.S. state of Maine.Fessenden was a Whig and member of the Fessenden political family...
  
   (R)
• 1. Lot M. Morrill
  Lot M. Morrill
  Lot Myrick Morrill was an American statesman who served as the 28th Governor of Maine, in the United States Senate and as Secretary of the Treasury....
  
   (R)

Maryland

• 3. James Pearce
  James Pearce
  James Alfred Pearce was an American politician. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing the second district of Maryland from 1835–1839 and 1841-1843. He later served as a U.S. Senator from Maryland from 1843 until his death in 1862.Pearce was the son of Gideon Pearce...
  
   (D), until December 20, 1862
  • Thomas H. Hicks
    Thomas Holliday Hicks
    Thomas Holliday Hicks was an American politician from Maryland. He served as the 31st Governor of Maryland from 1858 until 1862, and as a U.S...
    
     (U), from December 29, 1862
• 1. Anthony Kennedy
  Anthony Kennedy (Maryland)
  Anthony Kennedy was a United States Senator from Maryland, serving from 1857 to 1863. He was the brother of United States Secretary of the Navy John P. Kennedy....
  
   (U)

Massachusetts

• 1. Charles Sumner
  Charles Sumner
  Charles Sumner was an American politician and senator from Massachusetts. An academic lawyer and a powerful orator, Sumner was the leader of the antislavery forces in Massachusetts and a leader of the Radical Republicans in the United States Senate during the American Civil War and Reconstruction,...
  
   (R)
• 2. Henry Wilson
  Henry Wilson
  Henry Wilson was the 18th Vice President of the United States and a Senator from Massachusetts...
  
   (R)

Michigan

• 1. Zachariah Chandler
  Zachariah Chandler
  Zachariah Chandler was Mayor of Detroit , a four-term U.S. Senator from the state of Michigan , and Secretary of the Interior under U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant .-Family:...
  
   (R)
• 2. Kinsley S. Bingham
  Kinsley S. Bingham
  Kinsley Scott Bingham was a U.S. Representative, a U.S. Senator, and the 11th Governor of the state of Michigan.-Early life in New York:...
  
   (R), until October 5, 1861
  • Jacob M. Howard
    Jacob M. Howard
    Jacob Merritt Howard was a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from the state of Michigan during and after the American Civil War.-Early life:...
    
     (R), from January 17, 1862

Minnesota

• 1. Henry M. Rice (D)
• 2. Morton S. Wilkinson
  Morton S. Wilkinson
  Morton Smith Wilkinson was an American politician.Born in Skaneateles, New York, he moved to Illinois in 1837 and was employed in railroad work for two years. Upon returning to Skaneateles in 1840, he studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1842, and commenced practice in Eaton Rapids, Michigan in...
  
   (R)

Missouri

• 1. Trusten Polk
  Trusten Polk
  Trusten Polk served as both the 12th Governor of Missouri in 1857 and U.S. Senator from 1857 to 1862.-Biography:...
  
   (D), until January 10, 1862
  • John B. Henderson
    John B. Henderson
    John Brooks Henderson was a United States Senator from Missouri and a co-author of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution....
    
     (U), from January 17, 1862
• 3. Waldo P. Johnson
  Waldo P. Johnson
  Waldo Porter Johnson was a United States Senator from Missouri, and later a member of the Confederate Congress during the American Civil War....
  
   (D), March 17, 1861 – January 10, 1862
  • Robert Wilson
    Robert Wilson (Missouri)
    Robert Wilson was a United States Senator from Missouri.-Biography:Born near Staunton, Virginia, he moved to Howard County, Missouri in 1820 and taught school. In 1825 he was probate judge of Howard County and was clerk of the circuit and county courts from 1829 to 1840...
    
     (U), from January 17, 1862

New Hampshire

• 2. John P. Hale
  John P. Hale
  John Parker Hale was an American politician and lawyer from New Hampshire. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1843 to 1845 and in the United States Senate from 1847 to 1853 and again from 1855 to 1865. He was the first senator to make a stand against slavery...
  
   (R)
• 3. Daniel Clark
  Daniel Clark (New Hampshire)
  Daniel Clark was an American politician who served in the New Hampshire legislature and the United States Senate....
  
   (R)

New Jersey

• 1. John R. Thomson
  John Renshaw Thomson
  John Renshaw Thomson was an American merchant and politician from New Jersey.-Life:Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he attended the common schools in Princeton, New Jersey, and the College of New Jersey . In 1817, he went to China and became a merchant in Canton where he was United States...
  
   (D), until September 12, 1862
  • Richard S. Field
    Richard Stockton Field
    Richard Stockton Field was a United States Senator from New Jersey, and later a United States federal judge. Field was the great-grandson of Richard Stockton , New Jersey Delegate to the Continental Congress, and the grandson of Richard Stockton , US Senator from New Jersey.Born in White Hall,...
    
     (R), November 21, 1862 – January 14, 1863
  • James W. Wall
    James Walter Wall
    James Walter Wall was a United States Senator from New Jersey during the American Civil War. He was the son of U.S. Senator Garret Dorset Wall.-Biography:...
    
     (D), from January 14, 1863
• 2. John C. Ten Eyck
  John C. Ten Eyck
  John Conover Ten Eyck was a United States Senator from New Jersey during the American Civil War.Born in Freehold, New Jersey, he completed preparatory studies under private tutors, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1835, and commenced practice in Burlington, New Jersey...
  
   (R)

New York

• 1. Preston King
  Preston King
  Preston King was a United States Representative and Senator from New York.- Biography :Born in Ogdensburg, New York, he pursued classical studies and graduated from Union College in 1827, where he was an early member of The Kappa Alpha Society. He studied law and was admitted to the bar. He...
  
   (R)
• 3. Ira Harris
  Ira Harris
  Ira Harris was an American jurist and senator from New York. He was also a friend of Abraham Lincoln's.-Life:Harris grew up on a farm, and graduated from Union College in 1824. Then he studied law in Albany, and in 1828 was admitted to the bar.He was a Whig member from Albany County of the New...
  
   (R)

North Carolina

• 3. Thomas L. Clingman
  Thomas Lanier Clingman
  Thomas Lanier Clingman , known as the "Prince of Politicians," was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from 1843 to 1845 and from 1847 to 1858, and U.S. senator from the state of North Carolina between 1858 and 1861...
  
   (D), until March 28, 1861, vacant thereafter
• 2. Thomas Bragg
  Thomas Bragg
  Thomas Bragg was a politician and lawyer who served as the 34th Governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1855 through 1859. During the Civil War, he served in the Confederate States Cabinet. He was the older brother of General Braxton Bragg...
  
   (D), until March 6, 1861, vacant thereafter

Ohio

• 1. Benjamin F. Wade
  Benjamin Wade
  Benjamin Franklin "Bluff" Wade was a U.S. lawyer and United States Senator. In the Senate, he was associated with the Radical Republicans of that time.-Early life:...
  
   (R)
• 3. Salmon P. Chase
  Salmon P. Chase
  Salmon Portland Chase was an American politician and jurist who served as U.S. Senator from Ohio and the 23rd Governor of Ohio; as U.S. Treasury Secretary under President Abraham Lincoln; and as the sixth Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.Chase was one of the most prominent members...
  
   (R), until March 7, 1861
  • John Sherman
    John Sherman (politician)
    John Sherman, nicknamed "The Ohio Icicle" , was a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from Ohio during the Civil War and into the late nineteenth century. He served as both Secretary of the Treasury and Secretary of State and was the principal author of the Sherman Antitrust Act...
    
     (R), from March 21, 1861

Oregon

• 2. Edward D. Baker
  Edward Dickinson Baker
  Edward Dickinson Baker was an English-born American politician, lawyer, military leader. In his political career, Baker served in the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois and later as a U.S. Senator from Oregon. A long-time close friend of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, Baker served as U.S...
  
   (R), until October 21, 1861
  • Benjamin Stark
    Benjamin Stark
    Benjamin Stark was an American merchant and politician in Oregon. A native of Louisiana, he purchased some of the original tracts of land for the city of Portland. He later served in the Oregon House of Representatives before appointment to the United States Senate in 1860 after the death of...
    
     (D), October 29, 1861 – September 12, 1862
  • Benjamin F. Harding
    Benjamin F. Harding
    Benjamin Franklin Harding was an American attorney and politician born in Pennsylvania. He held political offices in the Oregon Territory and later served as a United States Senator from the state of Oregon.-Early life:...
    
     (D), from September 12, 1862
• 3. James W. Nesmith
  James W. Nesmith
  James Willis Nesmith was an American politician and lawyer from Oregon. Born in Canada to American parents, he grew up in New Hampshire and Maine...
  
   (D)

Pennsylvania

• 1. Simon Cameron
  Simon Cameron
  Simon Cameron was an American politician who served as United States Secretary of War for Abraham Lincoln at the start of the American Civil War. After making his fortune in railways and banking, he turned to a life of politics. He became a U.S. senator in 1845 for the state of Pennsylvania,...
  
   (R), until March 4, 1861
  • David Wilmot
    David Wilmot
    David Wilmot was a U.S. political figure. He was a sponsor and eponym of the Wilmot Proviso which aimed to ban slavery in land gained from Mexico in the Mexican-American War of 1846–1848. Wilmot was a Democrat, a Free Soiler, and a Republican during his political career...
    
     (R), from March 14, 1861
• 3. Edgar Cowan
  Edgar Cowan
  Edgar Cowan was an American lawyer and Republican politician from Greensburg, Pennsylvania. He represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate during the American Civil War....
  
   (R)

Rhode Island

• 1. James F. Simmons
  James F. Simmons
  James Fowler Simmons was a United States Senator from Rhode Island. Born on a farm near Little Compton, he attended a private school in Newport and moved to Providence in 1812. He was employed in various manufacturing concerns in Rhode Island and Massachusetts and engaged in the manufacture of...
  
   (R), until August 15, 1862
  • Samuel G. Arnold
    Samuel G. Arnold
    Samuel Greene Arnold, Jr. was a United States Senator from Rhode Island. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, he received his early education under private tutors, and graduated from Brown University in 1841 and, in 1845, the law department of Harvard University, gaining admission to the bar that year...
    
     (R), from December 1, 1862
• 2. Henry B. Anthony
  Henry B. Anthony
  Henry Bowen Anthony was a United States newspaperman and political figure. He served as the editor and later part owner of the Providence Journal and later was the 21st Governor of Rhode Island between 1849 and 1851, as a member of the Whig Party.The son of William Anthony and Mary Kennicut...
  
   (R)

Tennessee

• 1. Andrew Johnson
  Andrew Johnson
  Andrew Johnson was the 17th President of the United States . As Vice-President of the United States in 1865, he succeeded Abraham Lincoln following the latter's assassination. Johnson then presided over the initial and contentious Reconstruction era of the United States following the American...
  
   (D), until March 4, 1862, vacant thereafter
• 2. Vacant

Texas

• 2. John Hemphill
  John Hemphill (senator)
  John Hemphill was Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court, a United States Senator, and a veteran of wars with Native Americans....
  
   (D), until July 11, 1861, vacant thereafter
• 1. Louis T. Wigfall (D), until March 23, 1861, vacant thereafter

Vermont

• 1. Solomon Foot
  Solomon Foot
  Solomon Foot was a Vermont lawyer, state representative and later senator who spent more than 25 years in elected office. He graduated from Middlebury College in 1826 and was admitted to the bar in 1831. He served as a state representative briefly in 1833, and also from 1836 to 1838...
  
   (R)
• 3. Jacob Collamer
  Jacob Collamer
  Jacob Collamer was an American politician from Vermont.-Biography:Jacob Collamer was born in Troy, New York. He graduated from the University of Vermont at Burlington, served in the War of 1812, studied law in St. Albans, Vermont, was admitted to the bar in 1813, and served as an officer in a...
  
   (R)

Virginia

• 1. James M. Mason
  James M. Mason
  James Murray Mason was a United States Representative and United States Senator from Virginia. He was a grandson of George Mason and represented the Confederate States of America as appointed commissioner of the Confederacy to the United Kingdom and France between 1861 and 1865 during the American...
  
   (D), until March 28, 1861
  • Waitman T. Willey
    Waitman T. Willey
    Waitman Thomas Willey was an American lawyer and politician from Morgantown, West Virginia. He represented both the states of Virginia and West Virginia in the United States Senate and was one of West Virginia's first two Senators.Willey was born in 1811, in a log cabin near the present day...
    
     (U), from July 9, 1861
• 2. Robert M. T. Hunter
  Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter
  -References:* Patrick, Rembert W. . Jefferson Davis and His Cabinet. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. pp. 90–101.-External links:* – A speech by R. M. T. Hunter before the U.S. House of Representatives, May 8th, 1846...
  
   (D), until March 28, 1861
  • John S. Carlile
    John S. Carlile
    John Snyder Carlile was an American merchant, lawyer, and politician, including a United States Senator. A strong supporter of the Union cause during the American Civil War, he represented the loyalist faction of Virginia, which was eventually separated into two distinct states over his...
    
     (U), from June 9, 1861

Wisconsin

• 1. James R. Doolittle
  James Rood Doolittle
  James Rood Doolittle was an American politician who served as a senator from the state of Wisconsin from March 4, 1857, to March 4, 1869. He was a strong supporter of President Abraham Lincoln's administration during the American Civil War.-Early life and career:Born in Hampton, New York,...
  
   (R)
• 3. Timothy O. Howe
  Timothy O. Howe
  Timothy Otis Howe was a member of the United States Senate, representing the state of Wisconsin from March 4, 1861, to March 4, 1879. He also served as U.S...
  
   (R)

House of Representatives

The names of members of the House of Representatives are listed by their districts. Once source reports no Virginians in this Congress, while another source recognizes five.

Alabama

. Vacant. Vacant. Vacant. Vacant. Vacant. Vacant. Vacant

California

All representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket

General ticket

General ticket representation is a term used to describe a particular method of electing members of a multi-member state delegation to the United States House of Representatives...

.. Frederick F. Low

Frederick Low

Frederick Ferdinand Low was an American politician, US congressman and the ninth Governor of California.-Life:Born in Frankfort in 1828, Low attended the Hampden Academy in Hampden, Maine. Low moved to California, entering the shipping business in San Francisco in 1849...

 (R), from June 3, 1862. Timothy G. Phelps (R). Aaron A. Sargent

Aaron Augustus Sargent

Aaron Augustus Sargent was an American journalist, lawyer, politician and diplomat. He was sometimes called the "Senator for the Southern Pacific Railroad".-Biography:...

 (R)

Connecticut

. Dwight Loomis

Dwight Loomis

Dwight Loomis was a United States Representative from Connecticut. He was born in Columbia, Connecticut where he attended the common schools. He also attended the academies in Monson, Massachusetts and Amherst, Massachusetts. He taught school and was also graduated from the law department of Yale...

 (R). James E. English

James E. English

James Edward English was a United States Representative and Senator from Connecticut. He was born in New Haven and attended the common schools; later, he engaged in the lumber business, banking, and manufacturing. He was a member of the New Haven board of selectmen from 1847 to 1861, and a member...

 (D). Alfred A. Burnham

Alfred A. Burnham

Alfred Avery Burnham was a U.S. Representative from Connecticut.Born in Windham, Connecticut, Burnham completed a preparatory course and attended college for one year before studying law. He was admitted to the bar in 1843 and commenced practice in Windham...

 (R). George C. Woodruff

George C. Woodruff (representative)

George Catlin Woodruff was a U.S. Representative from Connecticut.Born in Litchfield, Connecticut, Woodruff was graduated from Yale College in 1825.He studied law....

 (D)

Georgia

. Vacant. Vacant. Vacant. Vacant. Vacant. Vacant. Vacant. Vacant

Illinois

. Elihu B. Washburne

Elihu B. Washburne

Elihu Benjamin Washburne was one of seven brothers who played a prominent role in the early formation of the United States Republican Party...

 (R). Isaac N. Arnold

Isaac N. Arnold

Isaac Newton Arnold was an American politician and biographer. He served two terms in the United States House of Representatives and was known for his support of the abolition of slavery....

 (R). Owen Lovejoy

Owen Lovejoy

Owen Lovejoy was an American lawyer, Congregational minister, abolitionist, and Republican congressman from Illinois. He was also a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad...

 (R). William Kellogg

William Kellogg (Illinois)

William Kellogg was a U.S. Representative from Illinois and chief justice of the Nebraska Territory.Born in Kelloggsville, Ohio, Kellogg attended the public schools.He studied law....

 (R). William A. Richardson

William Alexander Richardson

William Alexander Richardson was a prominent Illinois Democrat politician before and during the American Civil War....

 (D), until January 29, 1863, vacant thereafter. John A. McClernand

John Alexander McClernand

John Alexander McClernand was an American lawyer and politician, and a Union general in the American Civil War. He was a classic case of the politician-in-uniform coming into conflict with career Army officers, graduates of the United States Military Academy. He was a prominent Democratic...

 (D), until October 28, 1861

• • Anthony L. Knapp
    Anthony L. Knapp
    Anthony Lausett Knapp was a U.S. Representative from Illinois, brother of Robert McCarty Knapp.Born in Middletown, New York, Knapp moved with his parents to Illinois in 1839 and settled in the city of Jerseyville. He completed preparatory studies and then studied law. He was admitted to the bar...
    
     (D), from December 12, 1861. James C. Robinson
    James Carroll Robinson
    James Carroll Robinson was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.Born near Paris, Illinois, Robinson moved to Clark County, Illinois, with his parents in 1825.He received a limited schooling....
    
     (D). Philip B. Fouke
    Philip B. Fouke
    Philip Bond Fouke was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.-Biography:Born in Kaskaskia, Illinois, Fouke attended the public schools and became a civil engineer....
    
     (D). John A. Logan
    John A. Logan
    John Alexander Logan was an American soldier and political leader. He served in the Mexican-American War and was a general in the Union Army in the American Civil War. He served the state of Illinois as a state senator, congressman and senator and was an unsuccessful candidate for Vice President...
    
     (D), until April 2, 1862
  • William J. Allen
    William J. Allen
    William Joshua Allen was a U.S. Representative from Illinois during much of the American Civil War, and was later a United States federal judge....
    
     (D), from June 2, 1862

Indiana

. John Law

John Law (representative)

John Law was an American politician who represented Indiana in the United States House of Representatives from 1861-1865. He was the son of Lyman Law, and grandson of Richard Law, and Amasa Learned....

 (D). James A. Cravens

James A. Cravens

James Addison Cravens was a nineteenth century politician from Indiana. He was the second cousin of James Harrison Cravens.-Biography:...

 (D). William McKee Dunn (R). William S. Holman

William S. Holman

William Steele Holman was a lawyer, judge and politician from Dearborn County, Indiana. He was a member of the Democratic Party who served as a U.S. Representative from 1859 to 1865, 1867 to 1877, 1881 to 1895, and 1897, spanning sixteen Congresses...

 (D). George W. Julian

George Washington Julian

George Washington Julian was a nineteenth century politician, lawyer and writer who served in Congress from Indiana. He was the son-in-law of Joshua Reed Giddings.-Biography:...

 (R). Albert G. Porter

Albert G. Porter

Albert Gallatin Porter was an American politician who served as the 19th Governor of Indiana from 1881 to 1885 and as a United States Congressman from 1859 to 1863. Originally a Democrat, he joined the Republican Party in 1856 after being expelled by the pro-slavery faction of the Democratic Party...

 (R). Daniel W. Voorhees

Daniel W. Voorhees

Daniel Wolsey Voorhees was a lawyer and United States Senator from Indiana, who was leader of the Democratic party and an anti-war Copperhead during the American Civil War.-Biography:...

 (D). Albert S. White

Albert White (U.S. Senator)

Albert Smith White was a U.S. Senator and Representative from the state of Indiana.White was born in Orange County, New York. He graduated from Union College in Schenectady in 1822, after which he studied law; he entered practice as a lawyer in 1825...

 (R). Schuyler Colfax

Schuyler Colfax

Schuyler Colfax, Jr. was a United States Representative from Indiana , Speaker of the House of Representatives , and the 17th Vice President of the United States . To date, he is one of only two Americans to have served as both House speaker and vice president.President Ulysses S...

 (R). William Mitchell

William Mitchell (congressman)

William Mitchell was a United States Representative from Indiana. He was born in Root, New York where he attended the public schools. Later, he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1836. He moved to Kendallville, Indiana and commenced the practice of law...

 (R). John P. C. Shanks

John P. C. Shanks

John Peter Cleaver Shanks was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.-Biography:Born in Martinsburg, Virginia , Shanks pursued an academic course. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1848 and commenced practice in Portland, Indiana, in 1849...

 (R)

Iowa

. Samuel Curtis

Samuel Curtis

Samuel Ryan Curtis was an American military officer, and one of the first Republicans elected to Congress. He was most famous for his role as a Union Army general the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War.-Biography:Born near Champlain, New York, Curtis graduated from the United...

 (R), until August 4, 1861

• • James F. Wilson (R), from October 8, 1861. William Vandever (R)

Kentucky

. Henry C. Burnett (D), until December 3, 1861

• • Samuel L. Casey
    Samuel L. Casey
    Samuel Lewis Casey was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.Born near Caseyville, Kentucky, Casey attended the country schools. He engaged in mercantile pursuits....
    
     (U), from March 10, 1862. James S. Jackson
    James S. Jackson
    James Streshly Jackson was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky and a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Biography:...
    
     (U), until December 13, 1861
  • George H. Yeaman (U), from December 1, 1862. Henry Grider
    Henry Grider
    Henry Grider was a United States Representative from Kentucky. He was born in Garrard County, Kentucky. He pursued an academic course, studied law, and was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Bowling Green, Kentucky....
    
     (U). Aaron Harding
    Aaron Harding
    Aaron Harding was a United States Representative from Kentucky. He was born near Campbellsville, the seat of Taylor County, where he attended rural schools. He became familiar with the classics, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1833, having commenced his practice in Greensburg, Kentucky...
    
     (U). Charles A. Wickliffe
    Charles A. Wickliffe
    Charles Anderson Wickliffe was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky. He also served as Speaker of the Kentucky House of Representatives, the 14th Governor of Kentucky, and was appointed Postmaster General by President John Tyler...
    
     (U). George W. Dunlap
    George W. Dunlap
    George Washington Dunlap was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.Born at Walnut Hills, near Lexington, Kentucky, Dunlap pursued preparatory studies.He was graduated from Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky, in 1834....
    
     (U). Robert Mallory
    Robert Mallory
    Robert Mallory was a nineteenth century politician and lawyer from Kentucky.Born in Madison Court House, Virginia, Mallory attended private schools and graduated from the University of Virginia in 1827...
    
     (U). John J. Crittenden
    John J. Crittenden
    John Jordan Crittenden was a politician from the U.S. state of Kentucky. He represented the state in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate and twice served as United States Attorney General in the administrations of William Henry Harrison and Millard Fillmore...
    
     (U). William H. Wadsworth
    William H. Wadsworth
    William Henry Wadsworth was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.Born in Maysville, Kentucky, Wadsworth attended town and county private schools....
    
     (U). John W. Menzies
    John W. Menzies
    John William Menzies was a nineteenth century politician, lawyer and judge from Kentucky.Born in Bryan Station, Kentucky, Menzies attended the common schools as a child and later graduated from the University of Virginia in 1840. He studied law and was admitted to the bar, commencing practice in...
    
     (U)

Louisiana

. Benjamin F. Flanders (U), from December 3, 1862. Michael Hahn

Michael Hahn

George Michael Hahn was the 19th Governor of Louisiana, Congressman, United States Senator during Reconstruction and after.-Early life:...

 (U), from December 3, 1862. Vacant. Vacant

Maine

. John N. Goodwin (R). Charles W. Walton

Charles W. Walton

Charles Wesley Walton was a United States Representative from Maine. He was born in Mexico, Maine where he attended the common schools and was also instructed at home and by private tutors...

 (R), until May 26, 1862

• • Thomas A. D. Fessenden
    T. A. D. Fessenden
    Thomas Amory Deblois Fessenden was a U.S. Representative from Maine, the son of abolitionist legislator Samuel Fessenden, and brother of Treasury Secretary William P. Fessenden and congressman Samuel C. Fessenden. He was an uncle of Union Army generals Francis Fessenden and James D...
    
     (R), from December 1, 1862. Samuel C. Fessenden
    Samuel C. Fessenden
    Samuel Clement Fessenden was a United States Congressman from Maine, son of abolitionist Samuel Fessenden, and brother of Treasury Secretary William Pitt Fessenden and Congressman T. A. D. Fessenden. He was an uncle of Union Army generals, Francis Fessenden and James D...
    
     (R). Anson P. Morrill
    Anson P. Morrill
    Anson Peaslee Morrill was an American politician. Born in 1803 in Belgrade, Maine, originally a storekeeper and millkeeper, he was the 24th Governor of Maine from 1855 to 1856, represented Maine's fourth district in the United States House of Representatives from 1861 to 1863 and served in the...
    
     (R). John H. Rice
    John H. Rice
    John Hovey Rice was a U.S. Representative from Maine.Born in Mount Vernon, Maine, to Nathaniel and Mary Jane Rice, Rice attended the common schools....
    
     (R). Frederick A. Pike
    Frederick A. Pike
    Frederick Augustus Pike was a U.S. Representative from Maine.Born in Calais, Maine, Pike attended the common schools and the Washington Academy, East Machias, Maine....
    
     (R)

Maryland

. John W. Crisfield

John W. Crisfield

John Woodland Crisfield was a U.S. Congressman from Maryland, representing the sixth district from 1847—1849 and the first district from 1861—1863. The city of Crisfield, Maryland, is named after him. Politically he was a strong supporter of Union during American Civil War, opposing...

 (U). Edwin H. Webster

Edwin Hanson Webster

Edwin Hanson Webster was a U.S. Congressman from Maryland, serving the second district for two terms from 1859 until 1865.-Biography:...

 (U). Cornelius L. L. Leary (U). Henry May

Henry May (Maryland)

Henry May was a U.S. Representative from Maryland.Born in Washington, D.C., May pursued an academic course. He attended Columbian College , Washington, D.C.. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1840, and commenced practice...

 (U). Francis Thomas

Francis Thomas

Francis Thomas was a Maryland politician who served as the 26th Governor of Maryland from 1842–1844. He also served as a United States Representative from Maryland, representing at separate times the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh districts.-Early life and career:Thomas was born in Frederick...

 (U). Charles B. Calvert

Charles Benedict Calvert

Charles Benedict Calvert was a U.S. Congressman from the sixth district of Maryland, serving one term from 1861–1863. He was an early backer of the inventors of the telegraph, and in 1856 he founded the Maryland Agricultural College, the first agricultural research college in America, now part of...

 (U)

Massachusetts

. Thomas D. Eliot

Thomas D. Eliot

Thomas Dawes Eliot, was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts. He was born in Boston on March 20, 1808. Eliot was named after his grandfather Justice Thomas Dawes of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court....

 (R). James Buffinton

James Buffinton

James Buffington was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts. He was born in Fall River on March 16, 1817. He attended the common schools, and Friends College in Providence, Rhode Island. He studied medicine but never practiced, then engaged in mercantile...

 (R). Charles F. Adams, Sr.

Charles Francis Adams, Sr.

Charles Francis Adams, Sr. was an American lawyer, politician, diplomat and writer. He was the grandson of President John Adams and Abigail Adams and the son of President John Quincy Adams and Louisa Adams....

 (R), until May 1, 1861

• • Benjamin Thomas
    Benjamin Thomas (congressman)
    Benjamin Franklin Thomas was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts.-Early years:...
    
     (U), from June 11, 1861. Alexander H. Rice
    Alexander H. Rice
    Alexander Hamilton Rice was Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts from 1856–1857, a U.S. Congressman during the American Civil War, and the 30th Governor of Massachusetts from 1876–78.-Biography:...
    
     (R). William Appleton (CU
    Constitutional Union Party (United States)
    The Constitutional Union Party was a political party in the United States created in 1860. It was made up of conservative former Whigs who wanted to avoid disunion over the slavery issue...
    
    ), until September 27, 1861
  • Samuel Hooper
    Samuel Hooper
    Samuel Hooper was a businessman and US congressman from Massachusetts, USA.Hooper was born in Marblehead, Massachusetts. He received a common school education and was employed as an agent for an importing firm and traveled extensively in foreign countries...
    
     (R), from December 2, 1861. John B. Alley
    John B. Alley
    John Bassett Alley was a businessman and politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.Born in Lynn, Massachusetts, Alley attended the common schools and Phillips Academy Andover....
    
     (R). Daniel W. Gooch
    Daniel W. Gooch
    Daniel Wheelwright Gooch was a United States Representative from Massachusetts. Gooch, the son of John and Olive Gooch, was born in Wells, Maine on January 8, 1820. He attended the public schools, Phillips Academy, and graduated from Dartmouth College...
    
     (R). Charles R. Train
    Charles R. Train
    Charles Russell Train was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.-Biography:Born in Framingham, Massachusetts, Train attended the common schools, Framingham Academy, and was graduated from Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, in 1837.He studied law at Harvard University.He was admitted to...
    
     (R). Goldsmith F. Bailey (R), until May 8, 1862
  • Amasa Walker
    Amasa Walker
    Amasa Walker was an American economist and United States Representative, and was the father of Francis Amasa Walker.-Biography:...
    
     (R), from December 1, 1862. Charles Delano
    Charles Delano
    Charles Delano was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.Born in New Braintree, Massachusetts, Delano moved with his parents to Amherst in 1833....
    
     (R). Henry L. Dawes
    Henry L. Dawes
    Henry Laurens Dawes was a Republican United States Senator and United States Representative, notable for the Dawes Act.-Biography:...
    
     (R)

Michigan

. Bradley F. Granger

Bradley F. Granger

Bradley Francis Granger was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.Granger was born in Lowville, New York and attended the public schools. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1847, and commenced practice in Tecumseh, Michigan...

 (R). Fernando C. Beaman

Fernando C. Beaman

Fernando Cortez Beaman was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan during and after the American Civil War....

 (R). Francis W. Kellogg

Francis William Kellogg

Francis William Kellogg was a U.S. Representative from the states of Michigan and Alabama.-Biography:...

 (R). Rowland E. Trowbridge

Rowland E. Trowbridge

Rowland Ebenezer Trowbridge was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.Trowbridge was born in Horseheads, New York and moved with his parents in 1821 to Oakland County, Michigan. In 1841, he graduated from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio and engaged in agricultural pursuits...

 (R)

Minnesota

. Cyrus Aldrich

Cyrus Aldrich

Cyrus Aldrich was a U.S. Representative from Minnesota.Aldrich was born in Smithfield, Rhode Island, June 18, 1808. He followed the occupations of sailor, boatman, farmer, contractor on public works, and mail contractor, and moved to Illinois and settled in Alton in 1837...

 (R). William Windom

William Windom

This page is about the former United States politician. William Windom was an American politician from Minnesota. He served as U.S. Representative from 1859 to 1869, and as U.S. Senator from 1870 to January 1871, from March 1871 to March 1881, and from November 1881 to 1883...

 (R)

Mississippi

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Missouri

. Francis P. Blair, Jr.

Francis Preston Blair, Jr.

Francis Preston Blair, Jr. was an American politician and Union Army general during the American Civil War. He represented Missouri in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, and he was the Democratic Party's nominee for Vice President in 1868.-Early life and career:Blair was born in...

 (R), until July, 1862, vacant thereafter. James S. Rollins

James S. Rollins

James Sidney Rollins was a nineteenth century Missouri politician and lawyer. He helped establish the University of Missouri, led the successful effort to get it located in Boone County, and gained funding for the University with the passage of a series of acts in the Missouri Legislature...

 (CU

Constitutional Union Party (United States)

The Constitutional Union Party was a political party in the United States created in 1860. It was made up of conservative former Whigs who wanted to avoid disunion over the slavery issue...

). John B. Clark

John Bullock Clark

John Bullock Clark, Sr. was a member of both the United States Congress and the Confederate Congress.-Biography:...

 (D), until July 13, 1861

• • William A. Hall
    William Augustus Hall
    William Augustus Hall was an American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives. He is the brother of Governor and Representative Willard Preble Hall and also the father of Representative Uriel Sebree Hall....
    
     (D), from January 20, 1862. Elijah H. Norton
    Elijah Hise Norton
    -Biography:He was born in Russellville, Logan County, Kentucky, November 21, 1821 and attended the public schools and Centre College, Danville, Kentucky He graduated from the law department of Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky, in 1842 and was admitted to the bar and commenced practice...
    
     (D). John W. Reid (D), until August 3, 1861
  • Thomas L. Price (D), from January 21, 1862. John S. Phelps
    John S. Phelps
    John Smith Phelps was a politician, soldier during the American Civil War, and the 23rd Governor of Missouri.-Early life and career:...
    
     (D). John W. Noell (D)

New Hampshire

. Gilman Marston

Gilman Marston

Gilman Marston was a United States Representative, Senator, and United States Army general from New Hampshire.-Early life:...

 (R). Edward H. Rollins

Edward H. Rollins

Edward Henry Rollins was a United States Representative and Senator from New Hampshire.-Biography:Born in a part of Somersworth, New Hampshire which is now Rollinsford , he attended the common schools and academies in Dover, New Hampshire and South Berwick, Maine...

 (R). Thomas M. Edwards

Thomas M. Edwards

Thomas McKey Edwards was a U.S. Representative from New Hampshire.Born in Keene, New Hampshire, Edwards was tutored privately. He was graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, in 1813. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1817, commencing practice in Keene, New Hampshire...

 (R)

New Jersey

. John T. Nixon

John T. Nixon

John Thompson Nixon was an American Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1859 to 1863....

 (R). John L. N. Stratton

John L. N. Stratton

John Leake Newbold Stratton was an American Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey's 2nd congressional district from 1859 to 1863....

 (R). William G. Steele

William G. Steele

William Gaston Steele was an American Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 3rd congressional district from 1861 to 1865....

 (D). George T. Cobb

George T. Cobb

George Thomas Cobb was an American Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 4th congressional district from 1861 to 1863.-Biography:...

 (D). Nehemiah Perry

Nehemiah Perry (congressman)

Nehemiah Perry was an American clerk, cloth manufacturer and Democratic Party politician who represented in the United States House of Representatives from 1861 to 1865....

 (D)

New York

. Edward H. Smith

Edward H. Smith

Edward Henry Smith was a U.S. Representative from New York during the American Civil War.-Biography:Born in Smithtown, Long Island, New York, Smith attended private schools.He engaged in agricultural pursuits....

 (D). Moses F. Odell

Moses F. Odell

Moses Fowler Odell was a U.S. Representative from New York during the American Civil War.-Biography:Born in Tarrytown, New York, Odell completed preparatory studies....

 (D). Benjamin Wood

Benjamin Wood

Benjamin Wood was a nineteenth-century American politician from the state of New York during the American Civil War.He was the brother of US congressional representative and New York City Mayor Fernando Wood...

 (D). James E. Kerrigan (ID

Independent Democrat

Independent Democrat is a term occasionally adopted by American politicians to refer to their party affiliation. Several elected officials, including members of Congress, have identified as " Independent Democrats."...

). William Wall (R). Frederick A. Conkling

Frederick A. Conkling

Frederick Augustus Cockling was a United States Representative from New York during the American Civil War, and a postbellum banker, insurance company executive, and writer.-Early life:...

 (R). Elijah Ward

Elijah Ward

Elijah Ward was a U.S. Congressman during the American Civil War and the Reconstruction era.Ward was born in Sing Sing , New York. He pursued classical studies, engaged in commercial pursuits in New York City and at the same time attended the law department of New York University...

 (D). Isaac C. Delaplaine

Isaac C. Delaplaine

Isaac Clason Delaplaine was a lawyer and politician who was a U.S. Representative from New York during the American Civil War....

 (D). Edward Haight

Edward Haight

Edward Haight was an American politician and businessman from New York. He served in Congress during the American Civil War....

 (D). Charles H. Van Wyck

Charles Van Wyck

Charles Henry Van Wyck was a Representative from New York, a Senator from Nebraska, and a Union Army Brigadier general in the American Civil War.-Early life and political career:...

 (R). John B. Steele

John B. Steele

John Benedict Steele was a U.S. Representative from New York in the American Civil War.-Biography:...

 (D). Stephen Baker (R). Abram B. Olin

Abram B. Olin

Abram Baldwin Olin was a U.S. Representative from New York, son of Gideon Olin.Born in Shaftsbury, Vermont, Olin attended the common schools, and graduated from Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, in 1835. He studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1838...

 (R). Erastus Corning

Erastus Corning

Erastus Corning I , American businessman and politician, was born in Norwich, Connecticut. Corning moved to Troy, New York at the age of 13 to clerk in the hardware store of an uncle; six years later he moved to Albany, New York, where he joined the mercantile business under James Spencer...

 (D). James B. McKean

James B. McKean

James Bedell McKean was an American politician from New York and Utah.-Early life:He was one of the professors in Jonesville Academy for some time...

 (R). William A. Wheeler

William A. Wheeler

William Almon Wheeler was a Representative from New York and the 19th Vice President of the United States .-Early life and career:...

 (R). Socrates N. Sherman

Socrates N. Sherman

Socrates Norton Sherman was a U.S. Representative from New York, a physician, and an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Biography:...

 (R). Chauncey Vibbard

Chauncey Vibbard

Chauncey Vibbard was a U.S. Representative from New York during the American Civil War.-Biography:Born in Galway, New York, Vibbard attended the common schools and was graduated from Mott's Academy for Boys, Albany, New York.He served as clerk in a wholesale grocery store in Albany, New York.He...

 (D). Richard Franchot

Richard Franchot

Richard Franchot was a U.S. Representative from New York and then an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War...

 (R). Roscoe Conkling

Roscoe Conkling

Roscoe Conkling was a politician from New York who served both as a member of the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate. He was the leader of the Stalwart faction of the Republican Party and the last person to refuse a U.S. Supreme Court appointment after he had...

 (R). R. Holland Duell

R. Holland Duell

Rodolphus Holland Duell was a United States Representative from New York during the American Civil War....

 (R). William E. Lansing

William E. Lansing

William Esselstyne Lansing was a U.S. Representative from New York during the American Civil War.-Biography:Born in Perryville, New York, Lansing attended the common schools.He graduated from Cazenovia Seminary in 1841....

 (R). Ambrose W. Clark

Ambrose W. Clark

Ambrose Williams Clark was a U.S. Representative from New York during the American Civil War.Born near Cooperstown, New York, Clark attended the public schools. He was publisher of the Otsego Journal 1831-1836, of the Northern Journal in Lewis County 1836-1844, and of the Northern New York...

 (R). Charles B. Sedgwick

Charles B. Sedgwick

Charles Baldwin Sedgwick was a U.S. Representative from New York during the American Civil War.-Biography:Sedgwick was born in Pompey, New York, and attended Pompey Hill Academy, and Hamilton College, Clinton, New York...

 (R). Theodore M. Pomeroy

Theodore Medad Pomeroy

Theodore Medad Pomeroy was a United States politician. He served in the House of Representatives as a Republican from New York from 1861 to 1869. He also served as the Speaker of the House for about a day...

 (R). Jacob P. Chamberlain

Jacob P. Chamberlain

Jacob Payson Chamberlain was a U.S. Representative from New York during the American Civil War.-Biography:Born in Dudley, Massachusetts, Chamberlain moved with his parents to Seneca Falls, New York, in 1807....

 (R). Alexander S. Diven

Alexander S. Diven

Alexander Samuel Diven was a U.S. Representative from New York and then an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Biography:...

 (R). Robert B. Van Valkenburg

Robert B. Van Valkenburg

Robert Bruce Van Valkenburg was a United States Representative from New York, officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and subsequent US Minister Resident to Japan.-Biography:...

 (R). Alfred Ely

Alfred Ely

Alfred Ely was a U.S. Representative from New York. He was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses , serving New York's 29th congressional district....

 (R). Augustus Frank

Augustus Frank

Augustus Frank was a United States Representative from New York during the American Civil War.Born in Warsaw, Wyoming County, he was a nephew of two other U.S. Representatives, William Patterson and George Washington Patterson...

 (R). Burt Van Horn

Burt Van Horn

Burt Van Horn was a United States Representative from New York during the American Civil War.-Biography:...

 (R). Elbridge G. Spaulding

Elbridge G. Spaulding

Elbridge Gerry Spaulding Elbridge Gerry Spaulding Elbridge Gerry Spaulding (February 24, 1809 - May 5, 1897 was an American lawyer, banker, and politician. He supported the idea for the first U.S...

 (R). Reuben E. Fenton

Reuben Fenton

Reuben Eaton Fenton was an American merchant and politician from New York.-Life:He was the son of a farmer. He was elected a colonel of the New York State Militia in 1840. He became a lumber merchant, and entered politics as a Democrat...

 (R)

North Carolina

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Ohio

. George H. Pendleton

George H. Pendleton

George Hunt Pendleton was a Representative and a Senator from Ohio. Nicknamed "Gentleman George" for his demeanor, he was the Democratic nominee for Vice President of the United States during the Civil War in 1864, running as a peace Democrat with war Democrat George B. McClellan; they lost to...

 (D). John A. Gurley

John A. Gurley

John Addison Gurley was a U.S. Congressman from Ohio during the early part of the American Civil War. He was appointed as the first Governor of the Arizona Territory, but died before taking office....

 (R). Clement Vallandigham

Clement Vallandigham

Clement Laird Vallandigham was an Ohio resident of the Copperhead faction of anti-war Democrats during the American Civil War. He served two terms in the United States House of Representatives.-Biography:...

 (D). William Allen

William Allen (congressman)

William Allen was an United States Congressman from Ohio during the early part of the American Civil War....

 (D). James M. Ashley (R). Chilton A. White

Chilton A. White

Chilton Allen White was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born in Georgetown, Ohio, White attended the public schools and the subscription school run by his father, John D...

 (D). Thomas Corwin

Thomas Corwin

Thomas Corwin , also known as Tom Corwin and The Wagon Boy, was a politician from the state of Ohio who served as a prosecuting attorney, a member of the Ohio House of Representatives, the United States House of Representatives, and the United States Senate, and as the 15th Governor of Ohio 20th...

 (R), until March 12, 1861

• • Richard A. Harrison
    Richard A. Harrison
    Richard Almgill Harrison was a nineteenth century politician and lawyer from Ohio.Born in Thirsk, England, Harrison immigrated to the United States with his parents in 1832, settling in Ohio. He attended public schools, graduated from the Cincinnati Law School in 1846 and was admitted to the bar...
    
     (U), from July 4, 1861. Samuel Shellabarger
    Samuel Shellabarger (congressman)
    Samuel Shellabarger was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born near Enon, Ohio, Shellabarger attended the county schools and was graduated from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, in 1841.He studied law....
    
     (R). Warren P. Noble
    Warren P. Noble
    Warren Perry Noble was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.Noble was born in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania near Berwick and eventually moved to Ohio....
    
     (D). Carey A. Trimble
    Carey A. Trimble
    Carey Allen Trimble was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born in Hillsboro, Ohio, Trimble attended Pestalostian School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Stubb's Classical School in Newport, Kentucky. He graduated from Ohio University at Athens, Ohio in 1833 and from Cincinnati Medical College in...
    
     (R). Valentine B. Horton
    Valentine B. Horton
    Valentine Baxter Horton was a U.S. Representative from Ohio during the first two years of the American Civil War.-Biography:...
    
     (R). Samuel S. Cox
    Samuel S. Cox
    Samuel Sullivan "Sunset" Cox was an American Congressman and diplomat. He represented both Ohio and New York in the United States House of Representatives, and also served as United States Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire.Cox was the grandson of New Jersey Congressman James Cox...
    
     (D). John Sherman
    John Sherman (politician)
    John Sherman, nicknamed "The Ohio Icicle" , was a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from Ohio during the Civil War and into the late nineteenth century. He served as both Secretary of the Treasury and Secretary of State and was the principal author of the Sherman Antitrust Act...
    
     (R), until March 21, 1861
  • Samuel T. Worcester
    Samuel T. Worcester
    Samuel Thomas Worcester was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born in Hollis, New Hampshire, Worcester attended Phillips Academy and graduated from Harvard University in 1830. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1835 and began practice in Norwalk, Ohio...
    
     (R), from July 4, 1861. Harrison G. O. Blake
    Harrison G. O. Blake
    Harrison Gray Otis Blake was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born in Newfane, Vermont, Blake moved to Salem, New York, and in 1830 to Guilford, Ohio.He attended the public schools....
    
     (R). Robert H. Nugen
    Robert H. Nugen
    Robert Hunter Nugen was a U.S. Representative from Ohio during the American Civil War.Born near Hallidays Cove, Washington County, Pennsylvania, Nugen moved to Ohio in 1811 with his parents, who settled in Columbiana County, Ohio. He received a limited education...
    
     (D). William P. Cutler
    William P. Cutler
    William Parker Cutler was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born in Marietta, Ohio, Cutler was the son of Ephraim Cutler, and grandson of Manasseh Cutler...
    
     (R). James R. Morris
    James R. Morris
    James Remley Morris was a U.S. Representative from Ohio, son of Joseph Morris.Born in Rogersville, Pennsylvania, Morris attended the public schools.He moved with his parents to Waynesburg, Ohio, in 1829....
    
     (D). Sidney Edgerton
    Sidney Edgerton
    Sidney Edgerton was a politician, lawyer, judge and teacher from Ohio. He served during the American Civil War, as a Squirrel Hunter. During this time, Edgerton served as a U.S. Congressman. In 1863, Abraham Lincoln appointed him the first Chief justice of the Idaho Territorial Court...
    
     (R). Albert G. Riddle
    Albert G. Riddle
    Albert Gallatin Riddle was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born in Monson, Massachusetts, Riddle moved with his parents to Newbury, in the Western Reserve of Ohio, in 1817. He completed preparatory studies, and then studied law...
    
     (R). John Hutchins
    John Hutchins
    John Hutchins was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.Hutchins was born in Vienna, Ohio. He was a first cousin of future congressman Wells Andrews Hutchins. He attended the district schools and Western Reserve College in Cleveland, Ohio...
    
     (R). John Bingham
    John Bingham
    John Armor Bingham was a Republican congressman from Ohio, America, judge advocate in the trial of the Abraham Lincoln assassination and a prosecutor in the impeachment trials of Andrew Johnson...
    
     (R)

Oregon

. Andrew J. Thayer

Andrew J. Thayer

Andrew Jackson Thayer was an attorney and Democratic U.S. congressman from Oregon. A native of New York state, he previously worked as the U.S. Attorney for Oregon. His brother was William W. Thayer, a governor of Oregon...

 (D), until July 30, 1861

• • George K. Shiel
    George K. Shiel
    George Knox Shiel was a Democratic U.S. congressman from Oregon.-Early life:Born in Ireland in 1825, Shiel immigrated to the United States and settled in New Orleans. He moved to Ohio where he was admitted to the bar and began a law practice. He moved to Salem, Oregon in 1854 and continued his law...
    
     (D), from July 30, 1861

Pennsylvania

. William E. Lehman

William Eckart Lehman

William Eckart Lehman was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.- Biography :...

 (D). Edward Joy Morris

Edward Joy Morris

Edward Joy Morris was a Whig and Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Morris was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended the common schools and the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia...

 (R), until June 8, 1861

• • Charles J. Biddle
    Charles John Biddle
    Charles John Biddle was an American soldier, lawyer, Congressman, and newspaper editor.-Biography:Biddle was born and died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Nicholas Biddle, president of the Second Bank of the United States, and nephew of Congressman Richard Biddle...
    
     (D), from July 2, 1861. John P. Verree
    John Paul Verree
    John Paul Verree was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.John Paul Verree was born at “Verree Mills,” on Pennypack Creek, near what is now Fox Chase Station, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He engaged in the manufacture of iron and subsequently was a dealer in...
    
     (R). William D. Kelley
    William D. Kelley
    William D. Kelley was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Kelley was a lifelong advocate of civil rights, social reform, and labor protection.-Early life:...
    
     (R). William Morris Davis
    William Morris Davis (congressman)
    William Morris Davis , was an abolitionist, author and a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Among his friends were the New York sculptor Henry Kirke Brown, and the lock inventor Linus Yale.-Early life:William Morris Davis was born in Keene Valley, New York...
    
     (R). John Hickman
    John Hickman (congressman)
    John Hickman was a Republican, Democratic and Anti-Lecompton Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.-Early life:...
    
     (R). Thomas B. Cooper
    Thomas Buchecker Cooper
    Thomas Buchecker Cooper was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Thomas B. Cooper was born in Coopersburg, Pennsylvania. He attended the public schools and Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania...
    
     (D), until April 4, 1862
  • John D. Stiles
    John Dodson Stiles
    John Dodson Stiles was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania....
    
     (D), from June 3, 1862. Sydenham E. Ancona
    Sydenham Elnathan Ancona
    Sydenham Elnathan Ancona was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Sydenham E. Ancona was born near Lititz, Pennsylvania. He moved to Berks County, Pennsylvania, in 1826 with his parents, who settled near Sculls Hill, Pennsylvania. He attended public and...
    
     (D). Thaddeus Stevens
    Thaddeus Stevens
    Thaddeus Stevens , of Pennsylvania, was a Republican leader and one of the most powerful members of the United States House of Representatives...
    
     (R). John W. Killinger
    John Weinland Killinger
    John Weinland Killinger was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.John W. Killinger was born in Annville, Pennsylvania. He attended the public schools of Annville and the Lebanon Academy in Lebanon, Pennsylvania...
    
     (R). James H. Campbell
    James Hepburn Campbell
    James Hepburn Campbell was an Opposition Party and Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.-Biography:...
    
     (R). George W. Scranton
    George W. Scranton
    George Whitfield Scranton was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania from March 4, 1859, until his death in 1861.-Early life:...
    
     (R), until March 24, 1861
  • Hendrick B. Wright
    Hendrick Bradley Wright
    Hendrick Bradley Wright was a Democratic and Greenback member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.-Early life:...
    
     (D), from July 4, 1861. Philip Johnson
    Philip Johnson (congressman)
    Philip Johnson was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Philip Johnson was born in Polkville in Knowlton Township, New Jersey. He moved to Mount Bethel, Pennsylvania, in 1839. He attended the common schools and Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania,...
    
     (D). Galusha A. Grow
    Galusha A. Grow
    Galusha Aaron Grow was a prominent U.S. politician, lawyer, writer and businessman, and was Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1861 to 1863. He was defeated for reelection in 1862...
    
     (R). James T. Hale
    James Tracy Hale
    James Tracy Hale was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.James T. Hale was born in Towanda, Pennsylvania. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1832 and commenced practice in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania...
    
     (R). Joseph Bailey
    Joseph Bailey (congressman)
    Joseph Bailey was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Joseph Bailey was born in Pennsbury Township, Pennsylvania. He attended the common schools, and learned the trade of a hatter, which he carried on in Parkersville, Pennsylvania. He served in the...
    
     (D). Edward McPherson
    Edward McPherson
    Edward McPherson was a prominent Pennsylvania newspaperman, attorney, and United States Congressman. As a director of the Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Association, he effected efforts to protect portions of the Gettysburg Battlefield.-Early life and career:McPherson was born in Gettysburg,...
    
     (R). Samuel S. Blair
    Samuel Steel Blair
    Samuel Steel Blair was a Republican United States Representative from Pennsylvania.Born in Indiana, Pennsylvania, he attended the public schools and graduated from Jefferson College, Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1845...
    
     (R). John Covode
    John Covode
    John Covode was a United States Congressman and abolitionist.-Early life:Covode was born in West Fairfield, Pennsylvania. After serving an apprenticeship to a blacksmith, he became involved in the Westmoreland Coal Company, serving as the first president of the company in 1854...
    
     (R). Jesse Lazear
    Jesse Lazear
    Jesse Lazear was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Lazear was born in Richhill Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania. He received a limited schooling, taught school, and engaged in mercantile pursuits. He served as Recorder of Deeds for Greene County,...
    
     (D). James K. Moorhead
    James K. Moorhead
    James Kennedy Moorhead was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.-Biography:...
    
     (R). Robert McKnight
    Robert McKnight
    Robert McKnight was a Republican United States Representative from Pennsylvania.Robert McKnight was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended the common schools and a private school at Xenia, Ohio. He graduated from Princeton College in 1839. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1842...
    
     (R). John W. Wallace
    John Winfield Wallace
    John Winfield Wallace was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.-Biography:...
    
     (R). John Patton
    John Patton (1823-1897)
    John Patton was a U.S. Representative from the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. He was the father of Charles Emory Patton, also a U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania , and John Patton Jr., a U.S. Senator from Michigan , and the uncle of William Irvin Swoope, also a U.S...
    
     (R). Elijah Babbitt
    Elijah Babbitt
    Elijah Babbitt was a Republican United States Representative from Pennsylvania.Babbitt was born in Providence, Rhode Island. He moved with his parents to New York State in 1805. He received an academic education and moved to Milton, Pennsylvania, in 1816...
    
     (R)

Rhode Island

. William P. Sheffield

William Paine Sheffield (1820-1907)

William Paine Sheffield was a United States Representative and Senator from Rhode Island.-Biography:Born in New Shoreham , he completed preparatory studies, attended Kingston Academy, and graduated from the law department of Harvard University in 1843; he was admitted to the bar in 1844 and...

 (U). George H. Browne

George H. Browne

George Huntington Browne was a U.S. Representative from Rhode Island.Born in Gloucester, Rhode Island, Browne attended the public schools and was graduated from Brown University in 1840.He studied law....

 (U)

South Carolina

. Vacant. Vacant. Vacant. Vacant. Vacant. Vacant

Tennessee

. Vacant. Horace Maynard

Horace Maynard

Horace Maynard was an American educator, attorney, politician and diplomat active primarily in the second half of the 19th century...

 (U). George W. Bridges

George Washington Bridges

George Washington Bridges was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for the 3rd congressional district of Tennessee.-Biography:...

 (U), from February 25, 1863. Andrew J. Clements

Andrew Jackson Clements

Andrew Jackson Clements was a surgeon and an American politician as a member of the United States House of Representatives for the 4th congressional district of Tennessee.-Biography:...

 (U). Vacant. Vacant. Vacant. Vacant. Vacant. Vacant

Vermont

. Eliakim P. Walton (R). Justin S. Morrill

Justin Smith Morrill

Justin Smith Morrill was a Representative and a Senator from Vermont, most widely remembered today for the Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act that established federal funding for establishing many of the United States' public colleges and universities...

 (R). Portus Baxter

Portus Baxter

Portus Baxter was a banker, farmer, and politician from Vermont, United States.-Early life:Baxter was born in Brownington, Vermont, the son of William and Lydia Baxter. After attending local schools, he completed his education at Norwich Military Academy and the University of Vermont in Burlington...

 (R)

Virginia

. Joseph E. Segar (U), from May 6, 1862. Vacant. Vacant. Vacant. Vacant. Vacant. Charles H. Upton

Charles H. Upton

Charles Horace Upton was a nineteenth century politician and statesman from Massachusetts and Virginia.-Biography:...

 (U), July 4, 1861 – February 27, 1862

• • Lewis McKenzie
    Lewis McKenzie
    Lewis McKenzie was a nineteenth century politician, merchant and railroad president from Virginia.-Biography:...
    
     (U), from February 16, 1863. Vacant. Vacant. William G. Brown, Sr.
    William G. Brown, Sr.
    William Gay Brown, Sr. was a nineteenth century politician and lawyer from Virginia and West Virginia. He was the father of William G. Brown, Jr..-Biography:...
    
     (U). John S. Carlile
    John S. Carlile
    John Snyder Carlile was an American merchant, lawyer, and politician, including a United States Senator. A strong supporter of the Union cause during the American Civil War, he represented the loyalist faction of Virginia, which was eventually separated into two distinct states over his...
    
     (U), until July 9, 1861
  • Jacob B. Blair
    Jacob B. Blair
    Jacob Beeson Blair was a U.S. Representative from Virginia and from West Virginia.Born in Parkersburg, West Virginia , Blair studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1844...
    
     (U), from December 2, 1861. Kellian Whaley
    Kellian Whaley
    Kellian Van Rensalear Whaley was a nineteenth century congressman from Virginia and West Virginia and major of the 9th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War.-Biography:...
    
     (U). Vacant

Wisconsin

. John F. Potter

John F. Potter

John Fox Potter nicknamed "Bowie Knife Potter" was a nineteenth century politician, lawyer and judge from Wisconsin.-Biography:...

 (R). Luther Hanchett

Luther Hanchett

Luther Hanchett was a U.S. Representative from Wisconsin.Born in Middlebury Ohio, Hanchett attended the common schools.He studied law.He was admitted to the bar in 1846 and commenced practice in Fremont, Ohio....

 (R), until November 24, 1862

• • Walter D. McIndoe
    Walter D. McIndoe
    Walter Duncan Mcindoe was a U.S. Representative from Wisconsin.Born in Dumbartonshire, Scotland, Mcindoe immigrated to the United States in 1834.He engaged in business in New York, Charleston, St...
    
     (R), from January 26, 1863. A. Scott Sloan
    A. Scott Sloan
    Andrew Scott Sloan, or A. Scott Sloan , was a United States Representative from Wisconsin, brother of Ithamar Conkey Sloan.Born in Morrisville, New York, Sloan attended the public schools and Morrisville Academy....
    
     (R)

Non-voting members

. Hiram P. Bennet (R), from August 19, 1861. John B. S. Todd (D), from December 9. 1861. Samuel G. Daily (R). John Cradlebaugh

John Cradlebaugh

John Cradlebaugh was the first delegate to the United States House of Representatives from Nevada Territory.-Biography:...

, from December 2, 1861. John S. Watts (R). John M. Bernhisel

John Milton Bernhisel

John Milton Bernhisel was an American physician, politician and early member of the Latter-day Saint movement. He was a close friend and companion to both Joseph Smith, Jr. and Brigham Young...

 (I). William H. Wallace

William H. Wallace

William Henson Wallace was an important figure in the early histories of two U.S. states, serving as governor and Congressional delegate from both Washington Territory and Idaho Territory.Wallace's older brother David Wallace served as a Whig Governor of Indiana from 1837 to 1840...

 (R)

Changes in membership

The count below reflects changes from the beginning of the first session of this Congress.

Senate

|-
| Missouri (3)
| Vacant
| style="font-size:80%" | Did not take seat until after Congress commenced
| nowrap | Waldo P. Johnson

Waldo P. Johnson

Waldo Porter Johnson was a United States Senator from Missouri, and later a member of the Confederate Congress during the American Civil War....

 (D)
| March 17, 1861
|-
| Kansas (2)
| Vacant
| style="font-size:80%" | Election not recognized by US Senate
| nowrap | James H. Lane

James H. Lane (Senator)

James Henry Lane also known as Jim Lane was a partisan during the Bleeding Kansas period that immediately preceded the American Civil War. During the war, Lane served as a United States Senator and as a general who fought for the Union...

 (R)
| April 4, 1861
|-
| Kansas (3)
| Vacant
| style="font-size:80%" | Election not recognized by US Senate
| nowrap | Samuel C. Pomeroy

Samuel C. Pomeroy

Samuel Clarke Pomeroy was an American Republican Senator from Kansas in the mid-19th century, serving in the United States Senate during the American Civil War. Pomeroy served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives...

 (R)
| April 4, 1861
|-
| Pennsylvania (1)
| nowrap | Simon Cameron

Simon Cameron

Simon Cameron was an American politician who served as United States Secretary of War for Abraham Lincoln at the start of the American Civil War. After making his fortune in railways and banking, he turned to a life of politics. He became a U.S. senator in 1845 for the state of Pennsylvania,...

 (R)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned March 4, 1861 to become Secretary of War

United States Secretary of War

The Secretary of War was a member of the United States President's Cabinet, beginning with George Washington's administration. A similar position, called either "Secretary at War" or "Secretary of War," was appointed to serve the Congress of the Confederation under the Articles of Confederation...

. Successor was elected.
| nowrap | David Wilmot

David Wilmot

David Wilmot was a U.S. political figure. He was a sponsor and eponym of the Wilmot Proviso which aimed to ban slavery in land gained from Mexico in the Mexican-American War of 1846–1848. Wilmot was a Democrat, a Free Soiler, and a Republican during his political career...

 (R)
| March 14, 1861
|-
| North Carolina (2)
| nowrap | Thomas Bragg

Thomas Bragg

Thomas Bragg was a politician and lawyer who served as the 34th Governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1855 through 1859. During the Civil War, he served in the Confederate States Cabinet. He was the older brother of General Braxton Bragg...

 (D)
| style="font-size:80%" | Withdrew March 6, 1861; expelled later in 1861.
| colspan=2 | Vacant thereafter
|-
| Ohio (3)
| nowrap | Salmon P. Chase

Salmon P. Chase

Salmon Portland Chase was an American politician and jurist who served as U.S. Senator from Ohio and the 23rd Governor of Ohio; as U.S. Treasury Secretary under President Abraham Lincoln; and as the sixth Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.Chase was one of the most prominent members...

 (R)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned March 7, 1861 to become Secretary of the Treasury

United States Secretary of the Treasury

The Secretary of the Treasury of the United States is the head of the United States Department of the Treasury, which is concerned with financial and monetary matters, and, until 2003, also with some issues of national security and defense. This position in the Federal Government of the United...

. Successor was elected.
| nowrap | John Sherman

John Sherman (politician)

John Sherman, nicknamed "The Ohio Icicle" , was a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from Ohio during the Civil War and into the late nineteenth century. He served as both Secretary of the Treasury and Secretary of State and was the principal author of the Sherman Antitrust Act...

 (R)
| March 21, 1861
|-
| Texas (1)
| nowrap | Louis T. Wigfall (D)
| style="font-size:80%" | Withdrew March 23, 1861
| Vacant
| Vacant for remainder of term
|-
| North Carolina (3)
| nowrap | Thomas L. Clingman (D)
| style="font-size:80%" | Withdrew March 28, 1861; expelled later in 1861.
| colspan=2 | Vacant thereafter
|-
| Virginia (2)
| nowrap | Robert M. T. Hunter (D)
| style="font-size:80%" | Withdrew March 28, 1861 and later expelled for support of the rebellion. Successor was elected.
| nowrap | John S. Carlile

John S. Carlile

John Snyder Carlile was an American merchant, lawyer, and politician, including a United States Senator. A strong supporter of the Union cause during the American Civil War, he represented the loyalist faction of Virginia, which was eventually separated into two distinct states over his...

 (U)
| July 9, 1861
|-
| Virginia (1)
| nowrap | James M. Mason

James M. Mason

James Murray Mason was a United States Representative and United States Senator from Virginia. He was a grandson of George Mason and represented the Confederate States of America as appointed commissioner of the Confederacy to the United Kingdom and France between 1861 and 1865 during the American...

 (D)
| style="font-size:80%" | Expelled March 28, 1861 for supporting the rebellion. Successor was elected.
| nowrap | Waitman T. Willey

Waitman T. Willey

Waitman Thomas Willey was an American lawyer and politician from Morgantown, West Virginia. He represented both the states of Virginia and West Virginia in the United States Senate and was one of West Virginia's first two Senators.Willey was born in 1811, in a log cabin near the present day...

 (U)
| July 9, 1861
|-
| Illinois (2)
| nowrap | Stephen A. Douglas

Stephen A. Douglas

Stephen Arnold Douglas was an American politician from the western state of Illinois, and was the Northern Democratic Party nominee for President in 1860. He lost to the Republican Party's candidate, Abraham Lincoln, whom he had defeated two years earlier in a Senate contest following a famed...

 (D)
| style="font-size:80%" | Died June 3, 1861. Successor was appointed.
| nowrap | Orville H. Browning (R)
| June 26, 1861
|-
| Texas (2)
| nowrap | John Hemphill

John Hemphill (senator)

John Hemphill was Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court, a United States Senator, and a veteran of wars with Native Americans....

 (D)
| style="font-size:80%" | Expelled July ????, 1861
| Vacant
| Vacant for remainder of term
|-
| Illinois (2)
| nowrap | Orville H. Browning (R)
| style="font-size:80%" | Retired January 12, 1863 upon election of a successor.
| nowrap | William A. Richardson

William Alexander Richardson

William Alexander Richardson was a prominent Illinois Democrat politician before and during the American Civil War....

 (D)
| January 30, 1863
|-
| Arkansas (2)
| nowrap | William K. Sebastian (D)
| colspan=2 rowspan=2 style="font-size:80%" | Expelled July 11, 1861
| colspan=2 rowspan=2 | Vacant thereafter
|-
| Arkansas (3)
| nowrap | Charles B. Mitchel

Charles B. Mitchel

Charles Burton Mitchel was a Democratic Party politician from Arkansas who represented the state in the U.S...

 (D)
|-
| Michigan (2)
| nowrap | Kinsley S. Bingham

Kinsley S. Bingham

Kinsley Scott Bingham was a U.S. Representative, a U.S. Senator, and the 11th Governor of the state of Michigan.-Early life in New York:...

 (R)
| style="font-size:80%" | Died October 5, 1861. Successor was elected.
| nowrap | Jacob M. Howard

Jacob M. Howard

Jacob Merritt Howard was a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from the state of Michigan during and after the American Civil War.-Early life:...

 (R)
| January 17, 1862
|-
| Oregon (2)
| nowrap | Edward D. Baker (R)
| style="font-size:80%" | Killed at Battle of Ball's Bluff

Battle of Ball's Bluff

The Battle of Ball's Bluff, also known as the Battle of Harrison’s Island or the Battle of Leesburg, was fought on October 21, 1861, in Loudoun County, Virginia, as part of Union Maj. Gen. George B...

 October 21, 1861. Successor was appointed.
| nowrap | Benjamin Stark

Benjamin Stark

Benjamin Stark was an American merchant and politician in Oregon. A native of Louisiana, he purchased some of the original tracts of land for the city of Portland. He later served in the Oregon House of Representatives before appointment to the United States Senate in 1860 after the death of...

 (D)
| October 29, 1861
|-
| Kentucky (3)
| nowrap | John C. Breckinridge

John C. Breckinridge

John Cabell Breckinridge was an American lawyer and politician. He served as a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from Kentucky and was the 14th Vice President of the United States , to date the youngest vice president in U.S...

 (D)
| style="font-size:80%" | Expelled December 4, 1861 for supporting the rebellion. Successor was elected.
| nowrap | Garrett Davis

Garrett Davis

Garrett Davis was a U.S. Senator and Representative from Kentucky.Born in Mount Sterling, Kentucky, Garrett Davis was the brother of Amos Davis. After completing preparatory studies, Davis was employed in the office of the county clerk of Montgomery County, Kentucky, and afterward of Bourbon...

 (U)
| December 23, 1861
|-
| Missouri (1)
| nowrap | Trusten Polk

Trusten Polk

Trusten Polk served as both the 12th Governor of Missouri in 1857 and U.S. Senator from 1857 to 1862.-Biography:...

 (D)
| style="font-size:80%" | Expelled January 10, 1862 for supporting the rebellion. Successor was appointed.
| nowrap | John B. Henderson

John B. Henderson

John Brooks Henderson was a United States Senator from Missouri and a co-author of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution....

 (U)
| January 17, 1862
|-
| Missouri (3)
| nowrap | Waldo P. Johnson

Waldo P. Johnson

Waldo Porter Johnson was a United States Senator from Missouri, and later a member of the Confederate Congress during the American Civil War....

 (D)
| style="font-size:80%" | Expelled January 10, 1862 for disloyalty to the government. Successor was appointed.
| nowrap | Robert Wilson

Robert Wilson (Missouri)

Robert Wilson was a United States Senator from Missouri.-Biography:Born near Staunton, Virginia, he moved to Howard County, Missouri in 1820 and taught school. In 1825 he was probate judge of Howard County and was clerk of the circuit and county courts from 1829 to 1840...

 (U)
| January 17, 1862
|-
| Indiana (1)
| nowrap | Jesse D. Bright

Jesse D. Bright

Jesse David Bright was the ninth Lieutenant Governor of Indiana and U.S. Senator from Indiana who served as President pro tempore of the Senate on three separate occasions...

 (D)
| style="font-size:80%" | Expelled February 5, 1862 on charges of disloyalty. Successor was appointed.
| nowrap | Joseph A. Wright

Joseph A. Wright

Joseph Albert Wright was the tenth Governor of the U.S. state of Indiana from December 5, 1849 to January 12, 1857, most noted for his opposition to banking. His positions created a rift between him and the Indiana General Assembly who overrode all of his anti-banking vetoes...

 (U)
| February 24, 1862
|-
| Tennessee (1)
| nowrap | Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson was the 17th President of the United States . As Vice-President of the United States in 1865, he succeeded Abraham Lincoln following the latter's assassination. Johnson then presided over the initial and contentious Reconstruction era of the United States following the American...

 (D)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned March 4, 1862
| colspan=2 | Vacant thereafter
|-
| Rhode Island (1)
| nowrap | James F. Simmons

James F. Simmons

James Fowler Simmons was a United States Senator from Rhode Island. Born on a farm near Little Compton, he attended a private school in Newport and moved to Providence in 1812. He was employed in various manufacturing concerns in Rhode Island and Massachusetts and engaged in the manufacture of...

 (R)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned August 15, 1862. Successor was elected.
| nowrap | Samuel G. Arnold

Samuel G. Arnold

Samuel Greene Arnold, Jr. was a United States Senator from Rhode Island. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, he received his early education under private tutors, and graduated from Brown University in 1841 and, in 1845, the law department of Harvard University, gaining admission to the bar that year...

 (R)
| December 1, 1862
|-
| New Jersey (1)
| nowrap | John R. Thomson (D)
| style="font-size:80%" | Died September 12, 1862. Successor was appointed.
| nowrap | Richard S. Field (R)
| November 21, 1862
|-
| Oregon (2)
| nowrap | Benjamin Stark

Benjamin Stark

Benjamin Stark was an American merchant and politician in Oregon. A native of Louisiana, he purchased some of the original tracts of land for the city of Portland. He later served in the Oregon House of Representatives before appointment to the United States Senate in 1860 after the death of...

 (D)
| style="font-size:80%" | Retired September 12, 1862 upon election of a successor.
| nowrap | Benjamin F. Harding

Benjamin F. Harding

Benjamin Franklin Harding was an American attorney and politician born in Pennsylvania. He held political offices in the Oregon Territory and later served as a United States Senator from the state of Oregon.-Early life:...

 (D)
| September 12, 1862
|-
| Maryland (3)
| nowrap | James Pearce

James Pearce

James Alfred Pearce was an American politician. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing the second district of Maryland from 1835–1839 and 1841-1843. He later served as a U.S. Senator from Maryland from 1843 until his death in 1862.Pearce was the son of Gideon Pearce...

 (D)
| style="font-size:80%" | Died December 20, 1862. Successor was appointed.
| nowrap | Thomas H. Hicks (U)
| December 29, 1862
|-
| Indiana (1)
| nowrap | Joseph A. Wright

Joseph A. Wright

Joseph Albert Wright was the tenth Governor of the U.S. state of Indiana from December 5, 1849 to January 12, 1857, most noted for his opposition to banking. His positions created a rift between him and the Indiana General Assembly who overrode all of his anti-banking vetoes...

 (U)
| style="font-size:80%" | Retired January 14, 1863 upon election of a successor.
| nowrap | David Turpie

David Turpie

David Battle Turpie was an American politician.Turpie was born in Hamilton County, Ohio. He grew up in Ohio and graduated from Kenyon College in 1848. He studied law and moved to Logansport, Indiana where he set up a law practice...

 (D)
| January 14, 1863
|-
| New Jersey (1)
| nowrap | Richard S. Field (R)
| style="font-size:80%" | Retired January 14, 1863 upon election of a successor.
| nowrap | James W. Wall (D)
| January 14, 1863
|}

House of Representatives

|-
|
| colspan=2 | New seat
| nowrap | Hiram P. Bennett

Hiram Pitt Bennet

Hiram Pitt Bennet was a Delegate from the Territory of Colorado.-Background:Born in Carthage, Maine, Bennet moved to Ohio with his parents, who settled in Richland County in 1831. He attended public and private schools and the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, before taking a teaching job in...

(Conservative R)
| August 19, 1861
|-
|
| colspan=2 | New seat
| nowrap | John Cradlebaugh

John Cradlebaugh

John Cradlebaugh was the first delegate to the United States House of Representatives from Nevada Territory.-Biography:...

| December 2, 1861
|-
|
| colspan=2 | New seat
| nowrap | John B. S. Todd
(D)
| December 9, 1861
|-
|
| colspan=2 | Vacant
| nowrap | Benjamin F. Flanders (U)
| December 3, 1862
|-
|
| colspan=2 | Vacant
| nowrap | Michael Hahn

Michael Hahn

George Michael Hahn was the 19th Governor of Louisiana, Congressman, United States Senator during Reconstruction and after.-Early life:...

 (U)
| December 3, 1862
|-
|
| Vacant
| style="font-size:80%" | Representative-elect George W. Bridges was arrested by Confederate troops while en route to Washington, D.C. and held prisoner before he escaped.
| nowrap | George W. Bridges (U)
| February 25, 1863
|-
|
| colspan=2 | Vacant
| nowrap | Joseph E. Segar (U)
| May 6, 1862
|-
|
| Vacant
| style="font-size:80%" | Low not permitted to take seat, qualified later under special act of Congress
| nowrap | Frederick F. Low

Frederick Low

Frederick Ferdinand Low was an American politician, US congressman and the ninth Governor of California.-Life:Born in Frankfort in 1828, Low attended the Hampden Academy in Hampden, Maine. Low moved to California, entering the shipping business in San Francisco in 1849...

 (R)
| June 3, 1862
|-
|
| colspan=2 | Vacant
| nowrap | Charles H. Upton

Charles H. Upton

Charles Horace Upton was a nineteenth century politician and statesman from Massachusetts and Virginia.-Biography:...

 (U)
| July 4, 1861
|-
|
| nowrap | Thomas Corwin

Thomas Corwin

Thomas Corwin , also known as Tom Corwin and The Wagon Boy, was a politician from the state of Ohio who served as a prosecuting attorney, a member of the Ohio House of Representatives, the United States House of Representatives, and the United States Senate, and as the 15th Governor of Ohio 20th...

 (R)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned March 12, 1861 to become Minister to Mexico

United States Ambassador to Mexico

The United States has maintained diplomatic relations with Mexico since 1823, when Andrew Jackson was appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to that country. Jackson declined the appointment, however, and Joel R. Poinsett became the first U.S. envoy to Mexico in 1825. The rank...

| nowrap | Richard A. Harrison

Richard A. Harrison

Richard Almgill Harrison was a nineteenth century politician and lawyer from Ohio.Born in Thirsk, England, Harrison immigrated to the United States with his parents in 1832, settling in Ohio. He attended public schools, graduated from the Cincinnati Law School in 1846 and was admitted to the bar...

 (U)
| July 4, 1861
|-
|
| nowrap | John Sherman

John Sherman (politician)

John Sherman, nicknamed "The Ohio Icicle" , was a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from Ohio during the Civil War and into the late nineteenth century. He served as both Secretary of the Treasury and Secretary of State and was the principal author of the Sherman Antitrust Act...

 (R)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned March 12, 1861 when elected U.S. Senator
| nowrap | Samuel T. Worcester

Samuel T. Worcester

Samuel Thomas Worcester was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born in Hollis, New Hampshire, Worcester attended Phillips Academy and graduated from Harvard University in 1830. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1835 and began practice in Norwalk, Ohio...

 (R)
| July 4, 1861
|-
|
| nowrap | George W. Scranton

George W. Scranton

George Whitfield Scranton was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania from March 4, 1859, until his death in 1861.-Early life:...

 (R)
| style="font-size:80%" | Died March 24, 1861
| nowrap | Hendrick B. Wright (D)
| July 4, 1861
|-
|
| nowrap | Charles F. Adams, Sr. (R)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned May 1, 1861 to become Ambassador to Great Britain
| nowrap | Benjamin Thomas

Benjamin Thomas (congressman)

Benjamin Franklin Thomas was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts.-Early years:...

 (U)
| June 11, 1861
|-
|
| nowrap | Edward Joy Morris

Edward Joy Morris

Edward Joy Morris was a Whig and Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Morris was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended the common schools and the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia...

 (R)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned June 8, 1861 to become Minister Resident to Turkey

United States Ambassador to Turkey

The United States of America has maintained many high level contacts with Turkey since the nineteenth century.-Chargé d'Affaires:*George W. Erving *David Porter -Minister Resident:*David Porter *Dabney Smith Carr...

| nowrap | Charles J. Biddle (D)
| July 2, 1861
|-
|
| nowrap | John S. Carlile

John S. Carlile

John Snyder Carlile was an American merchant, lawyer, and politician, including a United States Senator. A strong supporter of the Union cause during the American Civil War, he represented the loyalist faction of Virginia, which was eventually separated into two distinct states over his...

 (U)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned July 9, 1861 to become United States Senator from the loyal faction of Virginia
| nowrap | Jacob B. Blair

Jacob B. Blair

Jacob Beeson Blair was a U.S. Representative from Virginia and from West Virginia.Born in Parkersburg, West Virginia , Blair studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1844...

 (U)
| December 2, 1861
|-
|
| nowrap | John B. Clark (D)
| style="font-size:80%" | Expelled July 13, 1861 for having taken up arms against the Union
| nowrap | William A. Hall (D)
| January 20, 1862
|-
|
| nowrap | Andrew J. Thayer

Andrew J. Thayer

Andrew Jackson Thayer was an attorney and Democratic U.S. congressman from Oregon. A native of New York state, he previously worked as the U.S. Attorney for Oregon. His brother was William W. Thayer, a governor of Oregon...

 (D)
| style="font-size:80%" | Election was successfully contested July 30, 1861
| nowrap | George K. Shiel

George K. Shiel

George Knox Shiel was a Democratic U.S. congressman from Oregon.-Early life:Born in Ireland in 1825, Shiel immigrated to the United States and settled in New Orleans. He moved to Ohio where he was admitted to the bar and began a law practice. He moved to Salem, Oregon in 1854 and continued his law...

 (D)
| July 30, 1861
|-
|
| nowrap | John W. Reid (D)
| style="font-size:80%" | Withdrew August 3, 1861 and then expelled December 2, 1861 for having taken up arms against the Union
| nowrap | Thomas L. Price (D)
| January 21, 1862
|-
|
| nowrap | Samuel Curtis

Samuel Curtis

Samuel Ryan Curtis was an American military officer, and one of the first Republicans elected to Congress. He was most famous for his role as a Union Army general the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War.-Biography:Born near Champlain, New York, Curtis graduated from the United...

 (R)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned August 4, 1861 to become colonel of the 2nd Iowa Infantry
| nowrap | James F. Wilson (R)
| October 8, 1861
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| nowrap | William Appleton (CU)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned September 27, 1861 due to failing health
| nowrap | Samuel Hooper

Samuel Hooper

Samuel Hooper was a businessman and US congressman from Massachusetts, USA.Hooper was born in Marblehead, Massachusetts. He received a common school education and was employed as an agent for an importing firm and traveled extensively in foreign countries...

 (R)
| December 2, 1861
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| nowrap | John A. McClernand (D)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned October 28, 1861 to accept a commission as brigadier general of volunteers for service in the Civil War
| nowrap | Anthony L. Knapp

Anthony L. Knapp

Anthony Lausett Knapp was a U.S. Representative from Illinois, brother of Robert McCarty Knapp.Born in Middletown, New York, Knapp moved with his parents to Illinois in 1839 and settled in the city of Jerseyville. He completed preparatory studies and then studied law. He was admitted to the bar...

 (D)
| December 12, 1861
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| nowrap | Henry C. Burnett (D)
| style="font-size:80%" | Expelled December 3, 1861 for support of secession
| nowrap | Samuel L. Casey

Samuel L. Casey

Samuel Lewis Casey was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.Born near Caseyville, Kentucky, Casey attended the country schools. He engaged in mercantile pursuits....

 (U)
| March 10, 1862
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| nowrap | James S. Jackson

James S. Jackson

James Streshly Jackson was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky and a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Biography:...

 (U)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned December 13, 1861 to enter the Union Army
| nowrap | George H. Yeaman (U)
| December 1, 1862
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| nowrap | Charles H. Upton

Charles H. Upton

Charles Horace Upton was a nineteenth century politician and statesman from Massachusetts and Virginia.-Biography:...

 (U)
| style="font-size:80%" | Declared not entitled to seat February 27, 1862
| nowrap | Lewis McKenzie

Lewis McKenzie

Lewis McKenzie was a nineteenth century politician, merchant and railroad president from Virginia.-Biography:...

 (U)
| February 16, 1863
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| nowrap | John A. Logan

John A. Logan

John Alexander Logan was an American soldier and political leader. He served in the Mexican-American War and was a general in the Union Army in the American Civil War. He served the state of Illinois as a state senator, congressman and senator and was an unsuccessful candidate for Vice President...

 (D)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned April 2, 1862 to enter the Union Army
| nowrap | William J. Allen

William J. Allen

William Joshua Allen was a U.S. Representative from Illinois during much of the American Civil War, and was later a United States federal judge....

 (D)
| June 2, 1862
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| nowrap | Thomas B. Cooper (D)
| style="font-size:80%" | Died April 4, 1862
| nowrap | John D. Stiles (D)
| June 3, 1862
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| nowrap | Goldsmith F. Bailey (R)
| style="font-size:80%" | Died May 8, 1862
| nowrap | Amasa Walker

Amasa Walker

Amasa Walker was an American economist and United States Representative, and was the father of Francis Amasa Walker.-Biography:...

 (R)
| December 1, 1862
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| nowrap | Charles W. Walton

Charles W. Walton

Charles Wesley Walton was a United States Representative from Maine. He was born in Mexico, Maine where he attended the common schools and was also instructed at home and by private tutors...

 (R)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned May 26, 1862 to become associate justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court

Maine Supreme Judicial Court

The Maine Supreme Judicial Court is the highest court in Maine's judicial system. Known as the Law Court when sitting as an appellate court, it is composed of seven justices, who are appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Maine Senate...

| nowrap | Thomas A. D. Fessenden (R)
| December 1, 1862
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| nowrap | Francis P. Blair, Jr.

Francis Preston Blair, Jr.

Francis Preston Blair, Jr. was an American politician and Union Army general during the American Civil War. He represented Missouri in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, and he was the Democratic Party's nominee for Vice President in 1868.-Early life and career:Blair was born in...

 (R)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned July, 1862 to become colonel in Union Army
| Vacant
| Vacant for remainder of term
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| nowrap | Luther Hanchett

Luther Hanchett

Luther Hanchett was a U.S. Representative from Wisconsin.Born in Middlebury Ohio, Hanchett attended the common schools.He studied law.He was admitted to the bar in 1846 and commenced practice in Fremont, Ohio....

 (R)
| style="font-size:80%" | Died November 24, 1862
| nowrap | Walter D. McIndoe

Walter D. McIndoe

Walter Duncan Mcindoe was a U.S. Representative from Wisconsin.Born in Dumbartonshire, Scotland, Mcindoe immigrated to the United States in 1834.He engaged in business in New York, Charleston, St...

 (R)
| January 26, 1863
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| nowrap | William A. Richardson

William Alexander Richardson

William Alexander Richardson was a prominent Illinois Democrat politician before and during the American Civil War....

 (D)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned January 29, 1863 after being elected to US Senate
| Vacant
| Vacant for remainder of term
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Senate

Standing committees of the Senate resolved, Friday, March 8, 1861

Foreign Relations

United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations

The United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations is a standing committee of the United States Senate. It is charged with leading foreign-policy legislation and debate in the Senate. The Foreign Relations Committee is generally responsible for overseeing and funding foreign aid programs as...

 

• Sumner (Chairman)
• Collamer
• Doolittle
• Harris
• Douglas
• Polk
• Breckinridge

Finance

United States Senate Committee on Finance

The U.S. Senate Committee on Finance is a standing committee of the United States Senate. The Committee concerns itself with matters relating to taxation and other revenue measures generally, and those relating to the insular possessions; bonded debt of the United States; customs, collection...

 

• Fessenden (Chairman)
• Simmons
• Wade
• Howe
• Hunter
• Pearce
• Bright

Commerce 

• Chandler (Chairman)
• King
• Morrill
• Wilson
• Clingman
• Saulsbury
• Johnson

Military Affairs and Militia 

• Wilson (Chairman)
• King
• Baker
• Lane
• Rice
• Latham
• Breckinridge

Naval Affairs 

• Hale (Chairman)
• Grimes
• Foot
• Cowan
• Thomson
• Nicholson
• Kennedy

Judiciary

United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary

The United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary is a standing committee of the United States Senate, of the United States Congress. The Judiciary Committee, with 18 members, is charged with conducting hearings prior to the Senate votes on confirmation of federal judges nominated by the...

 

• Trumbull (Chairman)
• Foster
• Ten Eyck
• Cowan
• Bayard
• Powell
• Clingman

Post Offices and Post Roads 

• Collamer (Chairman)
• Dixon
• Wade
• Trumbull
• Rice
• Bright
• Latham

Public Lands 

• Harlan (Chairman)
• Bingham
• Clark
• Wilkinson
• Johnson
• Mitchel
• Bragg

Private Land Claims 

• Harris (Chairman)
• Ten Eyck
• Sumner
• Polk
• Bayard

Indian Affairs

United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs

The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs is a committee of the United States Senate charged with oversight in matters related to the American Indian, Native Hawaiian, and Alaska Native peoples. A Committee on Indian Affairs existed from 1820 to 1947, after which it was folded into the Committee on...

 

• Doolittle (Chairman)
• Baker
• Cowan
• Ten Eyck
• Sebastian
• Rice
• Nesmith

Pensions 

• Foster (Chairman)
• Bingham
• Lane
• Simmons
• Saulsbury
• Powell
• Mitchel

Revolutionary Claims 

• King (Chairman)
• Chandler
• Wilkinson
• Nicholson
• Nesmith

Claims

United States Senate Committee on Claims

The United States Senate Committee on Claims was among the first standing committees established in the Senate. It dealt generally with issues related to private bills and petitions...

 

• Clark (Chairman)
• Simmons
• Howe
• Cowan
• Bragg
• Polk

District of Columbia

United States Senate Committee on the District of Columbia

The United States Senate Committee on the District of Columbia was one of the first standing committees created in the United States Senate, in 1816. It had jurisdiction over the District of Columbia...

 

• Grimes (Chairman)
• Anthony
• Morrill
• Wade
• Kennedy
• Clingman
• Powell

Patents and Patent Office 

• Simmons (Chairman)
• Sumner
• Doolittle
• Thomson
• Sebastian

Public Buildings and Grounds

United States Senate Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds

The U.S. Senate Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds was a committee of the United States Senate from 1883 until 1946. It was preceded by the United States Congress Joint Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds and succeeded by the United States Senate Committee on Public Works.-Committee...

 

• Foot (Chairman)
• Dixon
• Chandler
• Bright
• Kennedy

Territories 

• Wade (Chairman)
• Wilkinson
• Cowan
• Hale
• Douglas
• Sebastian
• Bragg

Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate

United States Senate Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate

This committee of the United States Senate was created November 4, 1807. On January 2, 1947 its functions were transferred to the Committee on Rules and Administration....

 

• Dixon (Chairman)
• Clark
• Johnson

Printing 

• Anthony (Chairman)
• Harlan
• Nicholson

Engrossed Bills 

• Lane (Chairman)
• Morrill
• Mitchel

Enrolled Bills 

• Bingham (Chairman)
• Baker
• Saulsbury

The Library 

• Pearce (Chairman)
• Collamer
• Fessenden

Order in the Galleries (Select)

• Anthony
• Mason
• Wade

House of Representatives

Members by committee assignments, Congressional Globe, as published July 8, 1861 Spellings conform to those found in the Congressional Biographical Dictionary.

Unless otherwise noted, all committees listed are Standing, as found at the Library of Congress

Accounts

United States House Committee on Accounts

The United States House Committee on Accounts is a former committee of the United States House of Representatives from 1803 to 1927.-History:The committee was created on December 27, 1803, and was made a standing committee in 1805....

 

• James Buffinton
  James Buffinton
  James Buffington was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts. He was born in Fall River on March 16, 1817. He attended the common schools, and Friends College in Providence, Rhode Island. He studied medicine but never practiced, then engaged in mercantile...
  
  
• Edward H. Rollins
  Edward H. Rollins
  Edward Henry Rollins was a United States Representative and Senator from New Hampshire.-Biography:Born in a part of Somersworth, New Hampshire which is now Rollinsford , he attended the common schools and academies in Dover, New Hampshire and South Berwick, Maine...
  
  
• William E. Lehman
• Samuel T. Worcester
  Samuel T. Worcester
  Samuel Thomas Worcester was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born in Hollis, New Hampshire, Worcester attended Phillips Academy and graduated from Harvard University in 1830. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1835 and began practice in Norwalk, Ohio...
  
  
• George W. Dunlap
  George W. Dunlap
  George Washington Dunlap was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.Born at Walnut Hills, near Lexington, Kentucky, Dunlap pursued preparatory studies.He was graduated from Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky, in 1834....
  
  

Agriculture

United States House Committee on Agriculture

The U.S. House Committee on Agriculture, or Agriculture Committee is a standing committee of the United States House of Representatives. The House Committee on Agriculture has general jurisdiction over federal agriculture policy and oversight of some federal agencies, and it can recommend funding...

 

• Owen Lovejoy
  Owen Lovejoy
  Owen Lovejoy was an American lawyer, Congregational minister, abolitionist, and Republican congressman from Illinois. He was also a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad...
  
  
• Dwight Loomis
  Dwight Loomis
  Dwight Loomis was a United States Representative from Connecticut. He was born in Columbia, Connecticut where he attended the common schools. He also attended the academies in Monson, Massachusetts and Amherst, Massachusetts. He taught school and was also graduated from the law department of Yale...
  
   CT
• Charles B. Calvert
• Edward H. Smith
  Edward H. Smith
  Edward Henry Smith was a U.S. Representative from New York during the American Civil War.-Biography:Born in Smithtown, Long Island, New York, Smith attended private schools.He engaged in agricultural pursuits....
  
  
• Jacob P. Chamberlain
  Jacob P. Chamberlain
  Jacob Payson Chamberlain was a U.S. Representative from New York during the American Civil War.-Biography:Born in Dudley, Massachusetts, Chamberlain moved with his parents to Seneca Falls, New York, in 1807....
  
  
• John P.C. Shanks
• Joseph Bailey
  Joseph Bailey (congressman)
  Joseph Bailey was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Joseph Bailey was born in Pennsbury Township, Pennsylvania. He attended the common schools, and learned the trade of a hatter, which he carried on in Parkersville, Pennsylvania. He served in the...
  
  
• Samuel T. Worcester
  Samuel T. Worcester
  Samuel Thomas Worcester was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born in Hollis, New Hampshire, Worcester attended Phillips Academy and graduated from Harvard University in 1830. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1835 and began practice in Norwalk, Ohio...
  
  
• Cyrus Aldrich
  Cyrus Aldrich
  Cyrus Aldrich was a U.S. Representative from Minnesota.Aldrich was born in Smithfield, Rhode Island, June 18, 1808. He followed the occupations of sailor, boatman, farmer, contractor on public works, and mail contractor, and moved to Illinois and settled in Alton in 1837...
  
  

Claims 

• Reuben E. Fenton
• Eliakim Persons Walton
  Eliakim Persons Walton
  Eliakim Persons Walton was a U.S. Representative from Vermont.Born in Montpelier, Vermont, Walton attended the common schools.Apprenticed to a printer.He studied law, but did not practice....
  
  
• William S. Holman
  William S. Holman
  William Steele Holman was a lawyer, judge and politician from Dearborn County, Indiana. He was a member of the Democratic Party who served as a U.S. Representative from 1859 to 1865, 1867 to 1877, 1881 to 1895, and 1897, spanning sixteen Congresses...
  
  
• John Hutchins
  John Hutchins
  John Hutchins was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.Hutchins was born in Vienna, Ohio. He was a first cousin of future congressman Wells Andrews Hutchins. He attended the district schools and Western Reserve College in Cleveland, Ohio...
  
  
• James T. Hale
• John W. Noell
• R. Holland Duell
  R. Holland Duell
  Rodolphus Holland Duell was a United States Representative from New York during the American Civil War....
  
  
• Edwin H. Webster
• John W. Wallace

Commerce

United States House Committee on Commerce

The United States House Committee on Commerce was a standing committee of the U.S. House from 1819 until 1892; it was established when the previous Committee on Commerce and Manufactures, which has existed since 1795, was split into two different committees...

 

• Elihu B. Washburne
  Elihu B. Washburne
  Elihu Benjamin Washburne was one of seven brothers who played a prominent role in the early formation of the United States Republican Party...
  
  
• Thomas D. Eliot
  Thomas D. Eliot
  Thomas Dawes Eliot, was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts. He was born in Boston on March 20, 1808. Eliot was named after his grandfather Justice Thomas Dawes of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court....
  
  
• Elijah Ward
  Elijah Ward
  Elijah Ward was a U.S. Congressman during the American Civil War and the Reconstruction era.Ward was born in Sing Sing , New York. He pursued classical studies, engaged in commercial pursuits in New York City and at the same time attended the law department of New York University...
  
  
• John T. Nixon
  John T. Nixon
  John Thompson Nixon was an American Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1859 to 1863....
  
  
• Elijah Babbitt
  Elijah Babbitt
  Elijah Babbitt was a Republican United States Representative from Pennsylvania.Babbitt was born in Providence, Rhode Island. He moved with his parents to New York State in 1805. He received an academic education and moved to Milton, Pennsylvania, in 1816...
  
  
• John A. Gurley
  John A. Gurley
  John Addison Gurley was a U.S. Congressman from Ohio during the early part of the American Civil War. He was appointed as the first Governor of the Arizona Territory, but died before taking office....
  
  
• James S. Rollins
  James S. Rollins
  James Sidney Rollins was a nineteenth century Missouri politician and lawyer. He helped establish the University of Missouri, led the successful effort to get it located in Boone County, and gained funding for the University with the passage of a series of acts in the Missouri Legislature...
  
  
• Cornelius L. L. Leary
• William P. Sheffield

Confiscation of Rebel Property (Select)

Listed in Library of Congress summary, but not in Congressional Globe of July 22, 1861

District of Columbia 

• James M. Ashley
• Charles B. Calvert
• Richard Franchot
  Richard Franchot
  Richard Franchot was a U.S. Representative from New York and then an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War...
  
  
• Edward H. Rollins
  Edward H. Rollins
  Edward Henry Rollins was a United States Representative and Senator from New Hampshire.-Biography:Born in a part of Somersworth, New Hampshire which is now Rollinsford , he attended the common schools and academies in Dover, New Hampshire and South Berwick, Maine...
  
  
• William Morris Davis
  William Morris Davis
  William Morris Davis was an American geographer, geologist, geomorphologist, and meteorologist, often called the "father of American geography"....
  
  
• Charles H. Upton
  Charles H. Upton
  Charles Horace Upton was a nineteenth century politician and statesman from Massachusetts and Virginia.-Biography:...
  
  

Elections

United States House Committee on Elections

The United States House Committee on Elections is a former standing committee of the United States House of Representatives.Article 1, section 5, of the Constitution of the United States specifies: "Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns, and Qualifications of its own Members." The...

 

• Henry L. Dawes
  Henry L. Dawes
  Henry Laurens Dawes was a Republican United States Senator and United States Representative, notable for the Dawes Act.-Biography:...
  
  
• James H. Campbell
• Daniel W. Voorhees
  Daniel W. Voorhees
  Daniel Wolsey Voorhees was a lawyer and United States Senator from Indiana, who was leader of the Democratic party and an anti-war Copperhead during the American Civil War.-Biography:...
  
  
• James B. McKean
  James B. McKean
  James Bedell McKean was an American politician from New York and Utah.-Early life:He was one of the professors in Jonesville Academy for some time...
  
  
• Dwight Loomis
  Dwight Loomis
  Dwight Loomis was a United States Representative from Connecticut. He was born in Columbia, Connecticut where he attended the common schools. He also attended the academies in Monson, Massachusetts and Amherst, Massachusetts. He taught school and was also graduated from the law department of Yale...
  
  
• Portus Baxter
  Portus Baxter
  Portus Baxter was a banker, farmer, and politician from Vermont, United States.-Early life:Baxter was born in Brownington, Vermont, the son of William and Lydia Baxter. After attending local schools, he completed his education at Norwich Military Academy and the University of Vermont in Burlington...
  
  
• George H. Browne
  George H. Browne
  George Huntington Browne was a U.S. Representative from Rhode Island.Born in Gloucester, Rhode Island, Browne attended the public schools and was graduated from Brown University in 1840.He studied law....
  
  
• John W. Menzies
  John W. Menzies
  John William Menzies was a nineteenth century politician, lawyer and judge from Kentucky.Born in Bryan Station, Kentucky, Menzies attended the common schools as a child and later graduated from the University of Virginia in 1840. He studied law and was admitted to the bar, commencing practice in...
  
  

Emancipation 

Listed in Library of Congress summary, but not in Congressional Globe of July 22, 1861

Expenditures in the State Department 

• James B. McKean
  James B. McKean
  James Bedell McKean was an American politician from New York and Utah.-Early life:He was one of the professors in Jonesville Academy for some time...
  
  
• James C. Robinson
  James Carroll Robinson
  James Carroll Robinson was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.Born near Paris, Illinois, Robinson moved to Clark County, Illinois, with his parents in 1825.He received a limited schooling....
  
  
• John T. Nixon
  John T. Nixon
  John Thompson Nixon was an American Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1859 to 1863....
  
  
• William Vandever
• Charles H. Upton
  Charles H. Upton
  Charles Horace Upton was a nineteenth century politician and statesman from Massachusetts and Virginia.-Biography:...
  
  

Expenditures in the Treasury Department 

• Moses F. Odell
  Moses F. Odell
  Moses Fowler Odell was a U.S. Representative from New York during the American Civil War.-Biography:Born in Tarrytown, New York, Odell completed preparatory studies....
  
  
• James H. Campbell
• John A. Bingham
• Alexander H. Rice
  Alexander H. Rice
  Alexander Hamilton Rice was Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts from 1856–1857, a U.S. Congressman during the American Civil War, and the 30th Governor of Massachusetts from 1876–78.-Biography:...
  
  
• William G. Steele
  William G. Steele
  William Gaston Steele was an American Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 3rd congressional district from 1861 to 1865....
  
  

Expenditures in the War Department 

• William A. Wheeler
  William A. Wheeler
  William Almon Wheeler was a Representative from New York and the 19th Vice President of the United States .-Early life and career:...
  
  
• Samuel R. Curtis IA
• Chauncey Vibbard
  Chauncey Vibbard
  Chauncey Vibbard was a U.S. Representative from New York during the American Civil War.-Biography:Born in Galway, New York, Vibbard attended the common schools and was graduated from Mott's Academy for Boys, Albany, New York.He served as clerk in a wholesale grocery store in Albany, New York.He...
  
  
• William Mitchell
  William Mitchell (congressman)
  William Mitchell was a United States Representative from Indiana. He was born in Root, New York where he attended the public schools. Later, he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1836. He moved to Kendallville, Indiana and commenced the practice of law...
  
  
• James S. Rollins
  James S. Rollins
  James Sidney Rollins was a nineteenth century Missouri politician and lawyer. He helped establish the University of Missouri, led the successful effort to get it located in Boone County, and gained funding for the University with the passage of a series of acts in the Missouri Legislature...
  
  

Expenditures in the Post Office Department 

• John W. Killinger
• Charles A. Wickliffe
  Charles A. Wickliffe
  Charles Anderson Wickliffe was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky. He also served as Speaker of the Kentucky House of Representatives, the 14th Governor of Kentucky, and was appointed Postmaster General by President John Tyler...
  
  
• Carey A. Trimble
  Carey A. Trimble
  Carey Allen Trimble was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born in Hillsboro, Ohio, Trimble attended Pestalostian School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Stubb's Classical School in Newport, Kentucky. He graduated from Ohio University at Athens, Ohio in 1833 and from Cincinnati Medical College in...
  
  
• Francis W. Kellogg
• Edward H. Smith
  Edward H. Smith
  Edward Henry Smith was a U.S. Representative from New York during the American Civil War.-Biography:Born in Smithtown, Long Island, New York, Smith attended private schools.He engaged in agricultural pursuits....
  
  

Expenditures in the Interior Department 

• William Allen
  William Allen (congressman)
  William Allen was an United States Congressman from Ohio during the early part of the American Civil War....
  
  
• Martin F. Conway
  Martin F. Conway
  Martin Franklin Conway was a U.S. congressman, consul to France, abolitionist, and advocate of the Free-State movement in Kansas....
  
  
• Socrates N. Sherman
  Socrates N. Sherman
  Socrates Norton Sherman was a U.S. Representative from New York, a physician, and an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Biography:...
  
  
• Samuel Shellabarger
  Samuel Shellabarger
  Samuel Shellabarger was an American educator and author of both scholarly works and best-selling historical novels. He was born in Washington, D.C., on 18 May 1888, but his parents both died while he was a baby...
  
  
• Thomas B. Cooper

Finance 

Listed in Library of Congress summary, but not in Congressional Globe of July 22, 1861

Foreign Affairs 

Also known as Foreign Relations

• John J. Crittenden
  John J. Crittenden
  John Jordan Crittenden was a politician from the U.S. state of Kentucky. He represented the state in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate and twice served as United States Attorney General in the administrations of William Henry Harrison and Millard Fillmore...
  
  
• Daniel W. Gooch
  Daniel W. Gooch
  Daniel Wheelwright Gooch was a United States Representative from Massachusetts. Gooch, the son of John and Olive Gooch, was born in Wells, Maine on January 8, 1820. He attended the public schools, Phillips Academy, and graduated from Dartmouth College...
  
  
• Samuel S. Cox
  Samuel S. Cox
  Samuel Sullivan "Sunset" Cox was an American Congressman and diplomat. He represented both Ohio and New York in the United States House of Representatives, and also served as United States Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire.Cox was the grandson of New Jersey Congressman James Cox...
  
  
• Albert S. White
• Robert McKnight
  Robert McKnight
  Robert McKnight was a Republican United States Representative from Pennsylvania.Robert McKnight was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended the common schools and a private school at Xenia, Ohio. He graduated from Princeton College in 1839. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1842...
  
  
• Alfred A. Burnham
  Alfred A. Burnham
  Alfred Avery Burnham was a U.S. Representative from Connecticut.Born in Windham, Connecticut, Burnham completed a preparatory course and attended college for one year before studying law. He was admitted to the bar in 1843 and commenced practice in Windham...
  
  
• Francis Thomas
  Francis Thomas
  Francis Thomas was a Maryland politician who served as the 26th Governor of Maryland from 1842–1844. He also served as a United States Representative from Maryland, representing at separate times the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh districts.-Early life and career:Thomas was born in Frederick...
  
  
• Theodore M. Pomeroy
• George P. Fisher
  George P. Fisher
  George Purnell Fisher was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic Party and later the Republican Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly, as Attorney General of Delaware, as Secretary of State of Delaware, as...
  
  

Indian Affairs 

• Cyrus Aldrich
  Cyrus Aldrich
  Cyrus Aldrich was a U.S. Representative from Minnesota.Aldrich was born in Smithfield, Rhode Island, June 18, 1808. He followed the occupations of sailor, boatman, farmer, contractor on public works, and mail contractor, and moved to Illinois and settled in Alton in 1837...
  
  
• Thomas M. Edwards
  Thomas M. Edwards
  Thomas McKey Edwards was a U.S. Representative from New Hampshire.Born in Keene, New Hampshire, Edwards was tutored privately. He was graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, in 1813. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1817, commencing practice in Keene, New Hampshire...
  
  
• Robert Mallory
  Robert Mallory
  Robert Mallory was a nineteenth century politician and lawyer from Kentucky.Born in Madison Court House, Virginia, Mallory attended private schools and graduated from the University of Virginia in 1827...
  
  
• Martin F. Conway
  Martin F. Conway
  Martin Franklin Conway was a U.S. congressman, consul to France, abolitionist, and advocate of the Free-State movement in Kansas....
  
  
• William Mitchell
  William Mitchell (congressman)
  William Mitchell was a United States Representative from Indiana. He was born in Root, New York where he attended the public schools. Later, he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1836. He moved to Kendallville, Indiana and commenced the practice of law...
  
  
• Moses F. Odell
  Moses F. Odell
  Moses Fowler Odell was a U.S. Representative from New York during the American Civil War.-Biography:Born in Tarrytown, New York, Odell completed preparatory studies....
  
  
• William E. Lansing
  William E. Lansing
  William Esselstyne Lansing was a U.S. Representative from New York during the American Civil War.-Biography:Born in Perryville, New York, Lansing attended the common schools.He graduated from Cazenovia Seminary in 1841....
  
  
• John Patton
• Andrew J. Thayer
  Andrew J. Thayer
  Andrew Jackson Thayer was an attorney and Democratic U.S. congressman from Oregon. A native of New York state, he previously worked as the U.S. Attorney for Oregon. His brother was William W. Thayer, a governor of Oregon...
  
  

Invalid Pensions

United States House Committee on Invalid Pensions

The United States House Committee on Invalid Pensions is a former committee of the United States House of Representatives from 1831 to 1946.The committee was created on January 10, 1831 with jurisdiction over matters relating to pensions for disabled veterans. Originally, the jurisdiction of the...

 

• Alfred Ely
  Alfred Ely
  Alfred Ely was a U.S. Representative from New York. He was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses , serving New York's 29th congressional district....
  
  
• Socrates N. Sherman
  Socrates N. Sherman
  Socrates Norton Sherman was a U.S. Representative from New York, a physician, and an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Biography:...
  
  
• John A. Logan
  John A. Logan
  John Alexander Logan was an American soldier and political leader. He served in the Mexican-American War and was a general in the Union Army in the American Civil War. He served the state of Illinois as a state senator, congressman and senator and was an unsuccessful candidate for Vice President...
  
  
• Richard A. Harrison
  Richard A. Harrison
  Richard Almgill Harrison was a nineteenth century politician and lawyer from Ohio.Born in Thirsk, England, Harrison immigrated to the United States with his parents in 1832, settling in Ohio. He attended public schools, graduated from the Cincinnati Law School in 1846 and was admitted to the bar...
  
  
• William P. Cutler
  William P. Cutler
  William Parker Cutler was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born in Marietta, Ohio, Cutler was the son of Ephraim Cutler, and grandson of Manasseh Cutler...
  
  
• Kellian V. Whaley
• John N. Goodwin
• Benjamin Wood
  Benjamin Wood
  Benjamin Wood was a nineteenth-century American politician from the state of New York during the American Civil War.He was the brother of US congressional representative and New York City Mayor Fernando Wood...
  
  
• George T. Cobb
  George T. Cobb
  George Thomas Cobb was an American Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 4th congressional district from 1861 to 1863.-Biography:...
  
  

Judiciary

United States House Committee on the Judiciary

The U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary, also called the House Judiciary Committee, is a standing committee of the United States House of Representatives. It is charged with overseeing the administration of justice within the federal courts, administrative agencies and Federal law enforcement...

 

• Albert G. Porter
  Albert G. Porter
  Albert Gallatin Porter was an American politician who served as the 19th Governor of Indiana from 1881 to 1885 and as a United States Congressman from 1859 to 1863. Originally a Democrat, he joined the Republican Party in 1856 after being expelled by the pro-slavery faction of the Democratic Party...
  
  
• John S. Carlile
  John S. Carlile
  John Snyder Carlile was an American merchant, lawyer, and politician, including a United States Senator. A strong supporter of the Union cause during the American Civil War, he represented the loyalist faction of Virginia, which was eventually separated into two distinct states over his...
  
  
• Benjamin F. Thomas
  Benjamin Thomas (congressman)
  Benjamin Franklin Thomas was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts.-Early years:...
  
  
• Henry May
  Henry May (Maryland)
  Henry May was a U.S. Representative from Maryland.Born in Washington, D.C., May pursued an academic course. He attended Columbian College , Washington, D.C.. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1840, and commenced practice...
  
  
• Alexander S. Diven
  Alexander S. Diven
  Alexander Samuel Diven was a U.S. Representative from New York and then an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Biography:...
  
  

Lake and River Defences 

Listed in Library of Congress summary, but not in Congressional Globe of July 22, 1861

Manufactures 

Listed in the Congressional Globe, but not listed in the Library of Congress summary page

• John Hutchins
  John Hutchins
  John Hutchins was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.Hutchins was born in Vienna, Ohio. He was a first cousin of future congressman Wells Andrews Hutchins. He attended the district schools and Western Reserve College in Cleveland, Ohio...
  
  
• James K. Moorhead
  James K. Moorhead
  James Kennedy Moorhead was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.-Biography:...
  
  
• Edward Haight
  Edward Haight
  Edward Haight was an American politician and businessman from New York. He served in Congress during the American Civil War....
  
  
• John B. Alley
  John B. Alley
  John Bassett Alley was a businessman and politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.Born in Lynn, Massachusetts, Alley attended the common schools and Phillips Academy Andover....
  
  
• Albert G. Porter
  Albert G. Porter
  Albert Gallatin Porter was an American politician who served as the 19th Governor of Indiana from 1881 to 1885 and as a United States Congressman from 1859 to 1863. Originally a Democrat, he joined the Republican Party in 1856 after being expelled by the pro-slavery faction of the Democratic Party...
  
  
• Alfred Ely
  Alfred Ely
  Alfred Ely was a U.S. Representative from New York. He was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses , serving New York's 29th congressional district....
  
  
• Isaac N. Arnold
  Isaac N. Arnold
  Isaac Newton Arnold was an American politician and biographer. He served two terms in the United States House of Representatives and was known for his support of the abolition of slavery....
  
  
• Sydenham E. Ancona
• William G. Brown

Mileage

United States House Committee on Mileage

The United States House Committee on Mileage is a former standing committee of the United States House of Representatives.The jurisdiction of the committee is described in Rule XI: "The ascertaining of the travel of Members of the House shall be made by the Committee on Mileage and reported to the...

 

Listed in the Congressional Globe, but not listed in the Library of Congress summary page

• James C. Robinson
  James Carroll Robinson
  James Carroll Robinson was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.Born near Paris, Illinois, Robinson moved to Clark County, Illinois, with his parents in 1825.He received a limited schooling....
  
  
• John W. Killinger
• Augustus Frank
  Augustus Frank
  Augustus Frank was a United States Representative from New York during the American Civil War.Born in Warsaw, Wyoming County, he was a nephew of two other U.S. Representatives, William Patterson and George Washington Patterson...
  
  
• Henry Grider
  Henry Grider
  Henry Grider was a United States Representative from Kentucky. He was born in Garrard County, Kentucky. He pursued an academic course, studied law, and was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Bowling Green, Kentucky....
  
  
• Benjamin Wood
  Benjamin Wood
  Benjamin Wood was a nineteenth-century American politician from the state of New York during the American Civil War.He was the brother of US congressional representative and New York City Mayor Fernando Wood...
  
  

Military Affairs 

Also known as Military

• Francis P. Blair, Jr.
• William A. Richardson
• James Buffinton
  James Buffinton
  James Buffington was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts. He was born in Fall River on March 16, 1817. He attended the common schools, and Friends College in Providence, Rhode Island. He studied medicine but never practiced, then engaged in mercantile...
  
  
• Abram B. Olin
  Abram B. Olin
  Abram Baldwin Olin was a U.S. Representative from New York, son of Gideon Olin.Born in Shaftsbury, Vermont, Olin attended the common schools, and graduated from Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, in 1835. He studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1838...
  
  
• William Allen
  William Allen (congressman)
  William Allen was an United States Congressman from Ohio during the early part of the American Civil War....
  
  
• Gilman Marston
  Gilman Marston
  Gilman Marston was a United States Representative, Senator, and United States Army general from New Hampshire.-Early life:...
  
  
• Hendrick B. Wright
• James S. Jackson
  James S. Jackson
  James Streshly Jackson was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky and a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Biography:...
  
  

Military Railroad 

Listed in Library of Congress summary, but not in Congressional Globe of July 22, 1861

Militia 

Also known as Military Affairs and the Militia

• Robert B. Van Valkenburg
  Robert B. Van Valkenburg
  Robert Bruce Van Valkenburg was a United States Representative from New York, officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and subsequent US Minister Resident to Japan.-Biography:...
  
  
• William M. Dunn
  William M. Dunn
  William McKee Dunn was a U.S. Representative from Indiana and the Judge Advocate General of the United States Army.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• Sydenham E. Ancona
• Charles Delano
  Charles Delano
  Charles Delano was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.Born in New Braintree, Massachusetts, Delano moved with his parents to Amherst in 1833....
  
  
• Charles J. Biddle
• Richard A. Harrison
  Richard A. Harrison
  Richard Almgill Harrison was a nineteenth century politician and lawyer from Ohio.Born in Thirsk, England, Harrison immigrated to the United States with his parents in 1832, settling in Ohio. He attended public schools, graduated from the Cincinnati Law School in 1846 and was admitted to the bar...
  
  
• William G. Brown
• William P. Cutler
  William P. Cutler
  William Parker Cutler was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born in Marietta, Ohio, Cutler was the son of Ephraim Cutler, and grandson of Manasseh Cutler...
  
  
• John N. Goodwin

Naval Affairs 

• Charles B. Sedgwick
  Charles B. Sedgwick
  Charles Baldwin Sedgwick was a U.S. Representative from New York during the American Civil War.-Biography:Sedgwick was born in Pompey, New York, and attended Pompey Hill Academy, and Hamilton College, Clinton, New York...
  
  
• Alexander H. Rice
  Alexander H. Rice
  Alexander Hamilton Rice was Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts from 1856–1857, a U.S. Congressman during the American Civil War, and the 30th Governor of Massachusetts from 1876–78.-Biography:...
  
  
• Philip B. Fouke
  Philip B. Fouke
  Philip Bond Fouke was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.-Biography:Born in Kaskaskia, Illinois, Fouke attended the public schools and became a civil engineer....
  
  
• James K. Moorhead
  James K. Moorhead
  James Kennedy Moorhead was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.-Biography:...
  
  
• James E. English
  James E. English
  James Edward English was a United States Representative and Senator from Connecticut. He was born in New Haven and attended the common schools; later, he engaged in the lumber business, banking, and manufacturing. He was a member of the New Haven board of selectmen from 1847 to 1861, and a member...
  
  
• John P. Verree
• Frederick A. Pike
  Frederick A. Pike
  Frederick Augustus Pike was a U.S. Representative from Maine.Born in Calais, Maine, Pike attended the common schools and the Washington Academy, East Machias, Maine....
  
  
• Frederick A. Conkling
  Frederick A. Conkling
  Frederick Augustus Cockling was a United States Representative from New York during the American Civil War, and a postbellum banker, insurance company executive, and writer.-Early life:...
  
  
• William H. Wadsworth
  William H. Wadsworth
  William Henry Wadsworth was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.Born in Maysville, Kentucky, Wadsworth attended town and county private schools....
  
  

Niagara Ship Canal (Select)

Listed in Library of Congress summary, but not in Congressional Globe of July 22, 1861

• Burt Van Horn
  Burt Van Horn
  Burt Van Horn was a United States Representative from New York during the American Civil War.-Biography:...
  
  , Chairman

Pacific Railroad 

Listed in Library of Congress summary, but not in Congressional Globe of July 22, 1861

Patents 

Also known as Patents and Patent Office

• William M. Dunn
  William M. Dunn
  William McKee Dunn was a U.S. Representative from Indiana and the Judge Advocate General of the United States Army.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• John H. Rice
  John H. Rice
  John Hovey Rice was a U.S. Representative from Maine.Born in Mount Vernon, Maine, to Nathaniel and Mary Jane Rice, Rice attended the common schools....
  
  
• Stephen Baker
  Stephen Baker (New York)
  Stephen Baker was a U.S. Representative from New York during the American Civil War.-Biography:Baker was born in New York City, New York and attended the common schools.He engaged as importer of woolen goods....
  
  
• Philip Johnson
  Philip Johnson
  Philip Cortelyou Johnson was an influential American architect.In 1930, he founded the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and later , as a trustee, he was awarded an American Institute of Architects Gold Medal and the first Pritzker Architecture...
  
  
• Warren P. Noble
  Warren P. Noble
  Warren Perry Noble was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.Noble was born in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania near Berwick and eventually moved to Ohio....
  
  

Pensions 

Listed in Library of Congress summary, but not in Congressional Globe of July 22, 1861

Post Offices and Post Roads 

• Schuler Colfax
• John B. Alley
  John B. Alley
  John Bassett Alley was a businessman and politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.Born in Lynn, Massachusetts, Alley attended the common schools and Phillips Academy Andover....
  
  
• Charles A. Wickliffe
  Charles A. Wickliffe
  Charles Anderson Wickliffe was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky. He also served as Speaker of the Kentucky House of Representatives, the 14th Governor of Kentucky, and was appointed Postmaster General by President John Tyler...
  
  
• Anson P. Morrill
  Anson P. Morrill
  Anson Peaslee Morrill was an American politician. Born in 1803 in Belgrade, Maine, originally a storekeeper and millkeeper, he was the 24th Governor of Maine from 1855 to 1856, represented Maine's fourth district in the United States House of Representatives from 1861 to 1863 and served in the...
  
  
• William Windom
  William Windom
  This page is about the former United States politician. William Windom was an American politician from Minnesota. He served as U.S. Representative from 1859 to 1869, and as U.S. Senator from 1870 to January 1871, from March 1871 to March 1881, and from November 1881 to 1883...
  
  
• Harrison G. Blake
• Chauncey Vibbard
  Chauncey Vibbard
  Chauncey Vibbard was a U.S. Representative from New York during the American Civil War.-Biography:Born in Galway, New York, Vibbard attended the common schools and was graduated from Mott's Academy for Boys, Albany, New York.He served as clerk in a wholesale grocery store in Albany, New York.He...
  
  
• Rowland E. Trowbridge
  Rowland E. Trowbridge
  Rowland Ebenezer Trowbridge was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.Trowbridge was born in Horseheads, New York and moved with his parents in 1821 to Oakland County, Michigan. In 1841, he graduated from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio and engaged in agricultural pursuits...
  
  
• Elijah H. Norton

Printing 

Also known as Joint Committee on Printing

United States Congress Joint Committee on Printing

The Joint Committee on Printing is a joint committee of the United States Congress devoted to overseeing the functions of the Government Printing Office and general printing procedures of the federal government of the United States...

• Eliakim Persons Walton
  Eliakim Persons Walton
  Eliakim Persons Walton was a U.S. Representative from Vermont.Born in Montpelier, Vermont, Walton attended the common schools.Apprenticed to a printer.He studied law, but did not practice....
  
  
• Ambrose W. Clark
  Ambrose W. Clark
  Ambrose Williams Clark was a U.S. Representative from New York during the American Civil War.Born near Cooperstown, New York, Clark attended the public schools. He was publisher of the Otsego Journal 1831-1836, of the Northern Journal in Lewis County 1836-1844, and of the Northern New York...
  
  
• Joseph Bailey
  Joseph Bailey (congressman)
  Joseph Bailey was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Joseph Bailey was born in Pennsbury Township, Pennsylvania. He attended the common schools, and learned the trade of a hatter, which he carried on in Parkersville, Pennsylvania. He served in the...
  
  

Private Land Claims 

• John W. Noell
• Luther Hanchett
  Luther Hanchett
  Luther Hanchett was a U.S. Representative from Wisconsin.Born in Middlebury Ohio, Hanchett attended the common schools.He studied law.He was admitted to the bar in 1846 and commenced practice in Fremont, Ohio....
  
  
• Burt Van Horn
  Burt Van Horn
  Burt Van Horn was a United States Representative from New York during the American Civil War.-Biography:...
  
  
• John P. C. Shanks
  John P. C. Shanks
  John Peter Cleaver Shanks was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.-Biography:Born in Martinsburg, Virginia , Shanks pursued an academic course. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1848 and commenced practice in Portland, Indiana, in 1849...
  
  
• Charles W. Walton
  Charles W. Walton
  Charles Wesley Walton was a United States Representative from Maine. He was born in Mexico, Maine where he attended the common schools and was also instructed at home and by private tutors...
  
  
• Samuel Shellabarger
  Samuel Shellabarger
  Samuel Shellabarger was an American educator and author of both scholarly works and best-selling historical novels. He was born in Washington, D.C., on 18 May 1888, but his parents both died while he was a baby...
  
  
• Jesse Lazear
  Jesse Lazear
  Jesse Lazear was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Lazear was born in Richhill Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania. He received a limited schooling, taught school, and engaged in mercantile pursuits. He served as Recorder of Deeds for Greene County,...
  
  

Public Lands 

• John F. Potter
  John F. Potter
  John Fox Potter nicknamed "Bowie Knife Potter" was a nineteenth century politician, lawyer and judge from Wisconsin.-Biography:...
  
  
• John Covode
  John Covode
  John Covode was a United States Congressman and abolitionist.-Early life:Covode was born in West Fairfield, Pennsylvania. After serving an apprenticeship to a blacksmith, he became involved in the Westmoreland Coal Company, serving as the first president of the company in 1854...
  
  
• Clement L. Vallandingham
• George W. Julian
• Carey A. Trimble
  Carey A. Trimble
  Carey Allen Trimble was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born in Hillsboro, Ohio, Trimble attended Pestalostian School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Stubb's Classical School in Newport, Kentucky. He graduated from Ohio University at Athens, Ohio in 1833 and from Cincinnati Medical College in...
  
  
• William Vandever
• Francis W. Kellogg
• John W. Crisfield
  John W. Crisfield
  John Woodland Crisfield was a U.S. Congressman from Maryland, representing the sixth district from 1847—1849 and the first district from 1861—1863. The city of Crisfield, Maryland, is named after him. Politically he was a strong supporter of Union during American Civil War, opposing...
  
  
• George C. Woodruff

Public Buildings and Grounds 

• Charles R. Train
  Charles R. Train
  Charles Russell Train was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.-Biography:Born in Framingham, Massachusetts, Train attended the common schools, Framingham Academy, and was graduated from Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, in 1837.He studied law at Harvard University.He was admitted to...
  
  
• Owen Lovejoy
  Owen Lovejoy
  Owen Lovejoy was an American lawyer, Congregational minister, abolitionist, and Republican congressman from Illinois. He was also a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad...
  
  
• Isaac C. Delaplaine
  Isaac C. Delaplaine
  Isaac Clason Delaplaine was a lawyer and politician who was a U.S. Representative from New York during the American Civil War....
  
  
• Robert McKnight
  Robert McKnight
  Robert McKnight was a Republican United States Representative from Pennsylvania.Robert McKnight was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended the common schools and a private school at Xenia, Ohio. He graduated from Princeton College in 1839. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1842...
  
  
• James R. Morris
  James R. Morris
  James Remley Morris was a U.S. Representative from Ohio, son of Joseph Morris.Born in Rogersville, Pennsylvania, Morris attended the public schools.He moved with his parents to Waynesburg, Ohio, in 1829....
  
  

Public Expenditures 

• John Covode
  John Covode
  John Covode was a United States Congressman and abolitionist.-Early life:Covode was born in West Fairfield, Pennsylvania. After serving an apprenticeship to a blacksmith, he became involved in the Westmoreland Coal Company, serving as the first president of the company in 1854...
  
  
• Thomas M. Edwards
  Thomas M. Edwards
  Thomas McKey Edwards was a U.S. Representative from New Hampshire.Born in Keene, New Hampshire, Edwards was tutored privately. He was graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, in 1813. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1817, commencing practice in Keene, New Hampshire...
  
  
• James E. Kerrigan
• Charles R. Train
  Charles R. Train
  Charles Russell Train was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.-Biography:Born in Framingham, Massachusetts, Train attended the common schools, Framingham Academy, and was graduated from Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, in 1837.He studied law at Harvard University.He was admitted to...
  
  
• William Windom
  William Windom
  This page is about the former United States politician. William Windom was an American politician from Minnesota. He served as U.S. Representative from 1859 to 1869, and as U.S. Senator from 1870 to January 1871, from March 1871 to March 1881, and from November 1881 to 1883...
  
  
• Edwin H. Webster
• George W. Julian
• Luther Hanchett
  Luther Hanchett
  Luther Hanchett was a U.S. Representative from Wisconsin.Born in Middlebury Ohio, Hanchett attended the common schools.He studied law.He was admitted to the bar in 1846 and commenced practice in Fremont, Ohio....
  
  
• Chilton A. White
  Chilton A. White
  Chilton Allen White was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born in Georgetown, Ohio, White attended the public schools and the subscription school run by his father, John D...
  
  

Revised and Unfinished Business 

Listed in the Congressional Globe, but not listed in the Library of Congress summary page

• John A. Logan
  John A. Logan
  John Alexander Logan was an American soldier and political leader. He served in the Mexican-American War and was a general in the Union Army in the American Civil War. He served the state of Illinois as a state senator, congressman and senator and was an unsuccessful candidate for Vice President...
  
  
• Elijah Babbitt
  Elijah Babbitt
  Elijah Babbitt was a Republican United States Representative from Pennsylvania.Babbitt was born in Providence, Rhode Island. He moved with his parents to New York State in 1805. He received an academic education and moved to Milton, Pennsylvania, in 1816...
  
  
• John W. Menzies
  John W. Menzies
  John William Menzies was a nineteenth century politician, lawyer and judge from Kentucky.Born in Bryan Station, Kentucky, Menzies attended the common schools as a child and later graduated from the University of Virginia in 1840. He studied law and was admitted to the bar, commencing practice in...
  
  
• Samuel C. Fessenden
  Samuel C. Fessenden
  Samuel Clement Fessenden was a United States Congressman from Maine, son of abolitionist Samuel Fessenden, and brother of Treasury Secretary William Pitt Fessenden and Congressman T. A. D. Fessenden. He was an uncle of Union Army generals, Francis Fessenden and James D...
  
  
• Edward Haight
  Edward Haight
  Edward Haight was an American politician and businessman from New York. He served in Congress during the American Civil War....
  
  

Revolutionary Claims 

• R. Holland Duell
  R. Holland Duell
  Rodolphus Holland Duell was a United States Representative from New York during the American Civil War....
  
  
• Sidney Edgerton
  Sidney Edgerton
  Sidney Edgerton was a politician, lawyer, judge and teacher from Ohio. He served during the American Civil War, as a Squirrel Hunter. During this time, Edgerton served as a U.S. Congressman. In 1863, Abraham Lincoln appointed him the first Chief justice of the Idaho Territorial Court...
  
  
• Thomas B. Cooper
• John H. Rice
  John H. Rice
  John Hovey Rice was a U.S. Representative from Maine.Born in Mount Vernon, Maine, to Nathaniel and Mary Jane Rice, Rice attended the common schools....
  
  
• William Wall
  William Wall
  William "Bill" Wall is an Irish novelist, poet and short story writer. He was born in Cork City in 1955, but grew up in the coastal village of Whitegate. He received his secondary education at the Christian Brothers School in Midleton. He progressed to University College Cork where he graduated in...
  
  
• Nehemiah Perry
  Nehemiah Perry (congressman)
  Nehemiah Perry was an American clerk, cloth manufacturer and Democratic Party politician who represented in the United States House of Representatives from 1861 to 1865....
  
  
• Henry Grider
  Henry Grider
  Henry Grider was a United States Representative from Kentucky. He was born in Garrard County, Kentucky. He pursued an academic course, studied law, and was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Bowling Green, Kentucky....
  
  
• Albert G. Riddle
  Albert G. Riddle
  Albert Gallatin Riddle was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born in Monson, Massachusetts, Riddle moved with his parents to Newbury, in the Western Reserve of Ohio, in 1817. He completed preparatory studies, and then studied law...
  
  
• Anson P. Morrill
  Anson P. Morrill
  Anson Peaslee Morrill was an American politician. Born in 1803 in Belgrade, Maine, originally a storekeeper and millkeeper, he was the 24th Governor of Maine from 1855 to 1856, represented Maine's fourth district in the United States House of Representatives from 1861 to 1863 and served in the...
  
  

Revolutionary Pensions

United States House Committee on Revolutionary Pensions

The United States House Committee on Revolutionary Pensions was a U.S. House committee, established on January 10, 1831, that superseded the defunct Committee on Military Pensions to assume jurisdiction over issues related to pensions for service in the American Revolutionary War.In 1867, the...

 

• Charles H. Van Wyck
• Samuel S. Blair
• John S. Carlile
  John S. Carlile
  John Snyder Carlile was an American merchant, lawyer, and politician, including a United States Senator. A strong supporter of the Union cause during the American Civil War, he represented the loyalist faction of Virginia, which was eventually separated into two distinct states over his...
  
  
• John F. Potter
  John F. Potter
  John Fox Potter nicknamed "Bowie Knife Potter" was a nineteenth century politician, lawyer and judge from Wisconsin.-Biography:...
  
  
• William Morris Davis
  William Morris Davis
  William Morris Davis was an American geographer, geologist, geomorphologist, and meteorologist, often called the "father of American geography"....
  
  
• John B. Steele
  John B. Steele
  John Benedict Steele was a U.S. Representative from New York in the American Civil War.-Biography:...
  
  
• Bradley F. Granger
  Bradley F. Granger
  Bradley Francis Granger was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.Granger was born in Lowville, New York and attended the public schools. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1847, and commenced practice in Tecumseh, Michigan...
  
  
• John Law
  John Law (representative)
  John Law was an American politician who represented Indiana in the United States House of Representatives from 1861-1865. He was the son of Lyman Law, and grandson of Richard Law, and Amasa Learned....
  
  
• William G. Steele
  William G. Steele
  William Gaston Steele was an American Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 3rd congressional district from 1861 to 1865....
  
  

Roads and Canals

United States House Committee on Roads and Canals

The United States House Committee on Roads and Canals was a U.S. House committee, which was initially established as a select committee in 1815 and subsequently became a standing committee between 1831 and 1869. Roads and canals were an initial and integral sector of domestic improvements for...

 

• Robert Mallory
  Robert Mallory
  Robert Mallory was a nineteenth century politician and lawyer from Kentucky.Born in Madison Court House, Virginia, Mallory attended private schools and graduated from the University of Virginia in 1827...
  
  
• John A. Gurley
  John A. Gurley
  John Addison Gurley was a U.S. Congressman from Ohio during the early part of the American Civil War. He was appointed as the first Governor of the Arizona Territory, but died before taking office....
  
  
• James T. Hale
• Burt Van Horn
  Burt Van Horn
  Burt Van Horn was a United States Representative from New York during the American Civil War.-Biography:...
  
  
• Isaac N. Arnold
  Isaac N. Arnold
  Isaac Newton Arnold was an American politician and biographer. He served two terms in the United States House of Representatives and was known for his support of the abolition of slavery....
  
  
• Robert H. Nugen
  Robert H. Nugen
  Robert Hunter Nugen was a U.S. Representative from Ohio during the American Civil War.Born near Hallidays Cove, Washington County, Pennsylvania, Nugen moved to Ohio in 1811 with his parents, who settled in Columbiana County, Ohio. He received a limited education...
  
  
• Stephen Baker
  Stephen Baker (New York)
  Stephen Baker was a U.S. Representative from New York during the American Civil War.-Biography:Baker was born in New York City, New York and attended the common schools.He engaged as importer of woolen goods....
  
  
• Philip Johnson
  Philip Johnson
  Philip Cortelyou Johnson was an influential American architect.In 1930, he founded the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and later , as a trustee, he was awarded an American Institute of Architects Gold Medal and the first Pritzker Architecture...
  
  
• Fernando C. Beaman
  Fernando C. Beaman
  Fernando Cortez Beaman was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan during and after the American Civil War....
  
  

State of the Union 

Listed in Library of Congress summary, but not in Congressional Globe of July 22, 1861

Territories

United States House Committee on Territories

The United States House Committee on Territories was a committee of the United States House of Representatives from 1825 to 1946 . Its jurisdiction was reporting on a variety to topics related to the territories, including legislation concerning them, and their admission as new states....

 

• James M. Ashley
• Charles H. Van Wyck
• James A. Cravens
  James A. Cravens
  James Addison Cravens was a nineteenth century politician from Indiana. He was the second cousin of James Harrison Cravens.-Biography:...
  
  
• William Kellogg
  William Kellogg (Illinois)
  William Kellogg was a U.S. Representative from Illinois and chief justice of the Nebraska Territory.Born in Kelloggsville, Ohio, Kellogg attended the public schools.He studied law....
  
  
• Fernando C. Beaman
  Fernando C. Beaman
  Fernando Cortez Beaman was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan during and after the American Civil War....
  
  
• John W. Reid
• A. Scott Sloan
  A. Scott Sloan
  Andrew Scott Sloan, or A. Scott Sloan , was a United States Representative from Wisconsin, brother of Ithamar Conkey Sloan.Born in Morrisville, New York, Sloan attended the public schools and Morrisville Academy....
  
  
• Goldsmith F. Bailey
• Aaron Harding
  Aaron Harding
  Aaron Harding was a United States Representative from Kentucky. He was born near Campbellsville, the seat of Taylor County, where he attended rural schools. He became familiar with the classics, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1833, having commenced his practice in Greensburg, Kentucky...
  
  

Ways and Means 

• Thaddeus Stevens
  Thaddeus Stevens
  Thaddeus Stevens , of Pennsylvania, was a Republican leader and one of the most powerful members of the United States House of Representatives...
  
  
• Justin S. Morrill
• John S. Phelps
  John S. Phelps
  John Smith Phelps was a politician, soldier during the American Civil War, and the 23rd Governor of Missouri.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• Elbridge G. Spaulding
  Elbridge G. Spaulding
  Elbridge Gerry Spaulding Elbridge Gerry Spaulding Elbridge Gerry Spaulding (February 24, 1809 - May 5, 1897 was an American lawyer, banker, and politician. He supported the idea for the first U.S...
  
  
• William Appleton
• Erastus Corning
  Erastus Corning
  Erastus Corning I , American businessman and politician, was born in Norwich, Connecticut. Corning moved to Troy, New York at the age of 13 to clerk in the hardware store of an uncle; six years later he moved to Albany, New York, where he joined the mercantile business under James Spencer...
  
  
• Valentine B. Horton
  Valentine B. Horton
  Valentine Baxter Horton was a U.S. Representative from Ohio during the first two years of the American Civil War.-Biography:...
  
  
• John A. McClernand
• John L. N. Stratton
  John L. N. Stratton
  John Leake Newbold Stratton was an American Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey's 2nd congressional district from 1859 to 1863....
  
  

Enrolled Bills 

• Bradley F. Granger
  Bradley F. Granger
  Bradley Francis Granger was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.Granger was born in Lowville, New York and attended the public schools. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1847, and commenced practice in Tecumseh, Michigan...
  
  
• George T. Cobb
  George T. Cobb
  George Thomas Cobb was an American Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 4th congressional district from 1861 to 1863.-Biography:...
  
  

Library 

• Edward McPherson
  Edward McPherson
  Edward McPherson was a prominent Pennsylvania newspaperman, attorney, and United States Congressman. As a director of the Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Association, he effected efforts to protect portions of the Gettysburg Battlefield.-Early life and career:McPherson was born in Gettysburg,...
  
  
• Augustus Frank
  Augustus Frank
  Augustus Frank was a United States Representative from New York during the American Civil War.Born in Warsaw, Wyoming County, he was a nephew of two other U.S. Representatives, William Patterson and George Washington Patterson...
  
  
• John Law
  John Law (representative)
  John Law was an American politician who represented Indiana in the United States House of Representatives from 1861-1865. He was the son of Lyman Law, and grandson of Richard Law, and Amasa Learned....
  
  

Senate

• Chaplain
  Chaplain of the United States Senate
  The Chaplain of the United States Senate opens each session of the United States Senate with a prayer, and provides and coordinates religious programs and pastoral care support for Senators, their staffs, and their families. The Chaplain is appointed by a majority vote of the members of the Senate...
  
  
  • Phineas D. Gurley (Presbyterian
    Presbyterianism
    Presbyterianism refers to a number of Christian churches adhering to the Calvinist theological tradition within Protestantism, which are organized according to a characteristic Presbyterian polity. Presbyterian theology typically emphasizes the sovereignty of God, the authority of the Scriptures,...
    
    )
  • Byron Sunderland
    Byron Sunderland
    Byron Sunderland was an American Presbyterian minister and served as a Chaplain of the United States Senate during the American Civil War.-Biography:...
    
     (Presbyterian
    Presbyterianism
    Presbyterianism refers to a number of Christian churches adhering to the Calvinist theological tradition within Protestantism, which are organized according to a characteristic Presbyterian polity. Presbyterian theology typically emphasizes the sovereignty of God, the authority of the Scriptures,...
    
    ), elected July 10, 1861
• Secretary
  Secretary of the United States Senate
  The Secretary of the Senate is an elected officer of the United States Senate. The Secretary supervises an extensive array of offices and services to expedite the day-to-day operations of that body...
  
  :
  • Asbury Dickens
  • John W. Forney, elected July 15, 1861
    • William Hickey (Chief Clerk) apptd "Acting Sec'y", March 22, 1861
• Sergeant at Arms
  Sergeant at Arms of the United States Senate
  The Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate is the law enforcer for the United States Senate. One of the chief roles of the Sergeant is to hold the gavel used at every session...
  
  :
  • Dunning R. McNair
  • George T. Brown, elected July 6, 1861

House of Representatives

• Chaplain of the House
  Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives
  The election of William Linn as Chaplain of the House on May 1, 1789, continued the tradition established by the Continental Congresses of each day's proceedings opening with a prayer by a chaplain. The early Chaplains alternated duties with their Senate counterparts on a weekly basis, covering the...
  
  :
  • Thomas H. Stockton (Methodist
    Methodism
    Methodism is a movement of Protestant Christianity represented by a number of denominations and organizations, claiming a total of approximately seventy million adherents worldwide. The movement traces its roots to John Wesley's evangelistic revival movement within Anglicanism. His younger brother...
    
    )
• Clerk
  Clerk of the United States House of Representatives
  The Clerk of the United States House of Representatives is an officer of the United States House of Representatives, whose primary duty is to act as the chief record-keeper for the House....
  
  :
  • John W. Forney
  • Emerson Etheridge
    Emerson Etheridge
    Henry Emerson Etheridge was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for Tennessee's 9th congressional district.-Biography:...
    
    , elected July 4, 1861
• Doorkeeper
  Doorkeeper of the United States House of Representatives
  An appointed officer of the United States House of Representatives from 1789 to 1995, the Doorkeeper of the United States House of Representatives was chosen by a resolution at the opening of each United States Congress. The Office of the Doorkeeper was based on precedent from the Continental...
  
  :
  • Ira Goodnow
• Messenger to the Speaker:
  • Thaddeus Morrice
• Postmaster
  Postmaster of the United States House of Representatives
  The Postmaster of the United States House of Representatives was an employee of the United States Congress from 1834 to 1993.Before the creation of the office of Postmaster, mail duties were handled by workers in the office of the Doorkeeper, who were paid additional compensation...
  
  :
  • William S. King
    William S. King
    Colonel William Smith King was a Republican United States Representative for Minnesota from March 4, 1875 to March 3, 1877. He engaged in a variety of other activities, including journalism and surveying. King was born in Malone, New York in Franklin County where he grew up and attended the...
    
    
• Sergeant at Arms
  Sergeant at Arms of the United States House of Representatives
  The United States House of Representatives Sergeant at Arms is an officer of the House with law enforcement, protocol, and administrative responsibilities. The Sergeant at Arms is elected at the beginning of each Congress by the membership of the chamber...
  
  :
  • Henry W. Hoffman
  • Edward Ball
    Edward Ball (congressman)
    Edward Ball was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born in Fairfax County, Virginia, near Falls Church, Ball attended the village school. He moved to Ohio and located near Zanesville, where he engaged in agricultural pursuits. He served as deputy sheriff of Muskingum County in 1837 and 1838 and...
    
    , elected July 5, 1861

External links

• Statutes at Large, 1789-1875
• Senate Journal, First Forty-three Sessions of Congress
• House Journal, First Forty-three Sessions of Congress
• Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• House History from the U.S. House of Representatives
• Statistics & Lists from the U.S. Senate
• Congressional Directory: Main Page, Government Printing Office Online. Detailed listings of many aspects of previous memberships and sessions of Congress.