The 59th Delaware General Assembly was a meeting of the legislative branch of the state government, consisting of the Delaware Senate

Delaware Senate

The Delaware Senate is the upper house of the Delaware General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. State of Delaware. It is composed of 21 Senators, each of whom is elected to a four-year term, except when reapportionment occurs, at which time Senators may be elected to a two-year term....

 and the Delaware House of Representatives

Delaware House of Representatives

The Delaware House of Representatives is the lower house of the Delaware General Assembly; the state legislature of the U.S. State of Delaware. It is composed of 41 Representatives from an equal amount of constituencies, each of whom is elected to a two year term. The Delaware General Assembly...

. Elections were held the first Tuesday after November 1st and terms began on the first Tuesday in January. It met in Dover, Delaware, convening January 3, 1837, two weeks before the beginning of the first and second year of the administration of Governor Cornelius P. Comegys

Cornelius P. Comegys

Cornelius Parsons Comegys was an American farmer and politician from Dover Hundred, in Kent County, Delaware, near Little Creek...

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The apportionment of seats was permanently assigned to three senators and seven representatives for each of the three counties. Population of the county did not effect the number of delegates. Both chambers had a Whig

Whig Party (United States)

The Whig Party was a political party of the United States during the era of Jacksonian democracy. Considered integral to the Second Party System and operating from the early 1830s to the mid-1850s, the party was formed in opposition to the policies of President Andrew Jackson and his Democratic...

 majority.

Senate

Senators were elected by the public for a four year term, some elected each two year.

New Castle County Christopher Brooks John D. Dilworth William Herdman Ahmad Mohsen Kent County Elias Naudain, Jr. Charles Polk, Jr. Charles Polk, Jr. Charles Polk, Jr. was an American farmer and politician from Big Stone Beach, in Milford Hundred, Kent County, Delaware... Presley Spruance, Jr.

Sussex County Joshua Burton David Hazzard David Hazzard David Hazzard was an American merchant and politician from Milton, in Sussex County, Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic-Republican Party, then the National Republican Party, and finally the Whig Party... Henry F. Rodney

House of Representative

Representatives were elected by the public for a term, every two years.

New Castle County Alexander M. Biddle William Booth Abraham Boyce Thomas Deakyne John W. Evans Archibald Hamilton George Lodge

Kent County James S. Buckmaster Peter L. Cooper Charles T. Fleming William Johnson Charles Martin William Nickerson Thomas A. Rees

Sussex County John P. Brinckloe Thomas Davis William S. Hall Robert Houston Stansbury Jacobs Jonathan Waller William D. Waples

Places with more information

• Delaware Historical Society
  Delaware Historical Society
  The Delaware Historical Society began in 1864 as an effort to preserve documents from the Civil War. Since then, it has expanded into a state-wide historical institution with several venues and a major museum in Wilmington and the historic Read House & Gardens in New Castle.The society...
  
  ; website; 505 North Market Street, Wilmington, Delaware 19801; (302) 655-7161
• University of Delaware
  University of Delaware
  The university is organized into seven colleges:* College of Agriculture and Natural Resources* College of Arts and Sciences* Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics* College of Earth, Ocean and Environment* College of Education and Human Development...
  
  ; Library website; 181 South College Avenue, Newark, Delaware 19717; (302) 831-2965