Second Confederate Congress - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The Second Confederate Congress was the second and last regular term of the legislature of the Confederate States of America

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...

. Members of the Second Confederate Congress were chosen in elections held at various dates in 1863 and 1864. They only served for just over one year of their two-year term since the American Civil War

American Civil War

The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...

ended and the Confederacy was defeated.

Sessions

The term of the Second Confederate Congress started on 18 February 1864 and was due to end on 17 February 1866. In the event the Congress did not function, after the end of its second and last session.

All sessions of the Second Confederate Congress met in the Confederacy's capital of Richmond, Virginia

Richmond, Virginia

Richmond is the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the United States. It is an independent city and not part of any county. Richmond is the center of the Richmond Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Greater Richmond area...

1st Session - 2 May 1864 to 14 June 1864
2nd Session - 7 November 1864 to 18 March 1865

Senate

President of the Senate: Vice President
Vice President of the Confederate States of America
The Vice President of the Confederate States of America was an office held by Alexander Stephens of Georgia, who served under President Jefferson Davis of Mississippi from February 18, 1861 to May 11, 1865. Having first been elected by the Confederate Congress, both were considered provisional...

Alexander H. Stephens
President pro tempore
Pro tempore
Pro tempore , abbreviated pro tem or p.t., is a Latin phrase which best translates to "for the time being" in English. This phrase is often used to describe a person who acts as a locum tenens in the absence of a superior, such as the President pro tempore of the United States Senate.Legislative...

: Robert Mercer Taliaferro 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...

of 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...
President pro tempore ad interim: William Alexander Graham
William Alexander Graham
William Alexander Graham was a United States Senator from North Carolina from 1840 to 1843, the 30th Governor of North Carolina from 1845 to 1849 and United States Secretary of the Navy from 1850 to 1852. He was also a candidate for the vice-presidency in 1852.-Education:Graham was born near...

of 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...

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House

Speaker of the House of Representatives: Thomas Stanley Bocock of 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...
Speaker pro tempore
Pro tempore
Pro tempore , abbreviated pro tem or p.t., is a Latin phrase which best translates to "for the time being" in English. This phrase is often used to describe a person who acts as a locum tenens in the absence of a superior, such as the President pro tempore of the United States Senate.Legislative...

: William Parish Chilton, Sr.
William Parish Chilton, Sr.
William Parish Chilton was a prominent lawyer, jurist, and politician serving the people of Alabama and eventually the Confederate States of America. Tuesday 10 August 2010 marked the 200th anniversary of his birth....

of Alabama
Alabama
Alabama is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west. Alabama ranks 30th in total land area and ranks second in the size of its inland...

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Senate

X: served in the Senate of the First Congress (ie reelected or continued in office for this Second Congress).

Confederate States Senators were elected by the state legislatures, or appointed by state Governors to fill casual vacancies until the legislature elected a new Senator. It was intended that one-third of the Senate would begin new six year terms with each Congress after the first.

Preceding the names in the list below are Senate class numbers, which indicate the cycle of their terms. Senators of Class 1 were intended to serve a six-year term, starting with this Congress and expiring in 1870. Class 2 Senators served what was intended to be a four-year term, due to end on the expiry of this Congress in 1866. Class 3 Senators were meant to serve a six-year term, due to expire in 1868.

Alabama
Alabama
Alabama is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west. Alabama ranks 30th in total land area and ranks second in the size of its inland...

3. Robert Jemison, Jr.
Robert Jemison, Jr.
Robert Jemison, Jr. was a Civil War era politician who voted against the secession of Alabama and later became the state's Confederate senator from 1863–1865.He also served in the Alabama General Assembly from 1837 until 1863. He used the Jr...

X
1. Richard Wilde Walker
Richard Wilde Walker
Richard Wilde Walker was a prominent Confederate States of America politician.Walker was born and died in Huntsville, Alabama. He was the son of John Williams Walker, the brother of Percy Walker and LeRoy Pope Walker, and father of Richard Wilde Walker, Jr. Richard Walker, Sr...

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...

1. Robert Ward Johnson
Robert Ward Johnson
Robert Ward Johnson was a Democratic United States Senator and Confederate States Senator from the State of Arkansas....

X
3. Charles Burton Mitchel X (died 20 September 1864)
- Augustus Hill Garland
  Augustus Hill Garland
  Augustus Hill Garland was an Arkansas lawyer and politician. He was a senator in both the United States and the Confederate States, served as 11th Governor of Arkansas and as Attorney General of the United States in the first administration of Grover Cleveland.-Early life and law career:Garland...
  
  (took his seat on 8 November 1864 - Appointed to fill vacancy)

Florida
Florida
Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...

1. James McNair Baker
James McNair Baker
James McNair Baker was a lawyer, politician, and Senator from Florida in the Confederate Congress during the American Civil War.-Biography:...

X
2. Augustus Emmet Maxwell X

Georgia
Georgia (U.S. state)
Georgia is a state located in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1732, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. The state is named after King George II of Great Britain. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788...

3. Benjamin Harvey Hill
Benjamin Harvey Hill
Benjamin Harvey Hill was a U.S. Representative, U.S. senator and a Confederate senator from the state of Georgia.-Biography:Hill was born September 14, 1823 in Hillsboro, Georgia in Jasper County...

X
1. Herschel Vespasian Johnson
Herschel Vespasian Johnson
Herschel Vespasian Johnson was an American politician. He was the 41st Governor of Georgia from 1853 to 1857 and the vice-presidential nominee of the Douglas wing of the Democratic Party in the 1860 US presidential election....

X

Kentucky
Kentucky
The Commonwealth of Kentucky is a state located in the East Central United States of America. As classified by the United States Census Bureau, Kentucky is a Southern state, more specifically in the East South Central region. Kentucky is one of four U.S. states constituted as a commonwealth...

3. Henry Cornelius Burnett
Henry Cornelius Burnett
Henry Cornelius Burnett was a U.S. Representative from the state of Kentucky and a Confederate States Senator. A lawyer by profession, Burnett had held only one public office—circuit court clerk—before being elected to Congress. He represented Kentucky's 1st congressional district during the...

X
1. William Emmet Simms X

Louisiana
Louisiana
Louisiana is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans. Louisiana is the only state in the U.S. with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are local governments equivalent to counties...

2. Thomas Jenkins Semmes
Thomas Jenkins Semmes
Thomas Jenkins Semmes was a lawyer and politician in the state of Louisiana who served in the Confederate States Senate during much of the American Civil War....

X
3. Edward Sparrow
Edward Sparrow
Edward Sparrow was a prominent Confederate States of America politician.Sparrow was born in Dublin, Ireland. He represented Louisiana in the Provisional Confederate Congress from 1861 to 1862. Sparrow was a deputy in the Provisional Confederate Congress...

X

Mississippi
Mississippi
Mississippi is a U.S. state located in the Southern United States. Jackson is the state capital and largest city. The name of the state derives from the Mississippi River, which flows along its western boundary, whose name comes from the Ojibwe word misi-ziibi...

2. Albert Gallatin Brown X
1. John William Clark Watson
John William Clark Watson
Clark Watson was a Confederate politician and judge.-External links:* at The Political Graveyard...

Missouri
Missouri
Missouri is a US state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. With a 2010 population of 5,988,927, Missouri is the 18th most populous state in the nation and the fifth most populous in the Midwest. It...

2. Waldo Porter Johnson X
1. (vacant caused by the inability of the Missouri legislature to meet and elect a senator)
- George Graham Vest
  George Graham Vest
  George Graham Vest was a U.S. politician. Born in Frankfort, Kentucky, he was known for his skills in oration and debate. Vest, a lawyer as well as a politician, served as a Missouri Congressman, a Confederate Congressman during the Civil War, and finally a US Senator...
  
  (took his seat on 12 January 1865 - Appointed to fill vacancy)

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...

2. William Theophilus Dortch
William Theophilus Dortch
William Theophilus Dortch was a prominent North Carolina and Confederate States of America politician and lawyer.Dortch was born near Rocky Mount, North Carolina...

X
1. William Alexander Graham
William Alexander Graham
William Alexander Graham was a United States Senator from North Carolina from 1840 to 1843, the 30th Governor of North Carolina from 1845 to 1849 and United States Secretary of the Navy from 1850 to 1852. He was also a candidate for the vice-presidency in 1852.-Education:Graham was born near...

South Carolina
South Carolina
South Carolina is a state in the Deep South of the United States that borders Georgia to the south, North Carolina to the north, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. Originally part of the Province of Carolina, the Province of South Carolina was one of the 13 colonies that declared independence...

2. Robert Woodward Barnwell
Robert Woodward Barnwell
Robert Woodward Barnwell was an American planter, lawyer, and educator from South Carolina who served as a Senator in both the United States Senate and that of the Confederate States of America.-Biography:...

X
3. James Lawrence Orr
James Lawrence Orr
James Lawrence Orr was an American politician who served as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives in the United States Congress...

X

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...

3. Landon Carter Haynes, Sr.
Landon Carter Haynes, Sr.
Landon Carter Haynes was a prominent Confederate politician during the American Civil War.-Biography:...

X
2. Gustavus Adolphus Henry, Sr.
Gustavus Adolphus Henry, Sr.
Gustavus Adolphus Henry Sr. was a prominent antebellum planter and lawyer, and a prominent member of the Confederate Congress during the American Civil War....

X

Texas
Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

3. William Simpson Oldham, Sr.
William Simpson Oldham, Sr.
William Simpson Oldham, Sr. was a politician in the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War....

X
2. Louis Trezevant Wigfall X

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...

3. Robert Mercer Taliaferro 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...

X
2. Allen Taylor Caperton X

House of Representatives

The names of members of the House of Representatives are preceded by their district numbers.

X: reelected

Alabama

1. Thomas Jefferson Foster
Thomas Jefferson Foster
Thomas Jefferson Foster was a soldier and prominent politician serving the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War...

X
2. William Russell Smith
William Russell Smith
William Russell Smith was a prominent Alabama politician served in both the United States Congress and the Confederate Congress.-Biography:...

X
3. Congress refused to seat Representative-elect W. R. W. Cobb
Williamson Robert Winfield Cobb
Williamson Robert Winfield Cobb was an American politician who served the state of Alabama in the U.S. House of Representatives between 1847 and 1861. He was born in Rhea County, Tennessee on June 8, 1807 to David Cobb and Martha Bryant. He moved with his father, David Cobb, in 1809 to Bellefonte,...

, an avowed Unionist; the district was not represented;
4. Marcus Henderson Cruikshank
Marcus Henderson Cruikshank
Marcus Henderson Cruikshank was a Confederate States of America politician who served in the Confederate States Congress during the American Civil War....
5. Francis Strother Lyon
Francis Strother Lyon
Francis Strother Lyon was a prominent Alabama attorney and politician. He served two terms in the Confederate States Congress during the American Civil War after being an antebellum member of the United States Congress.-Early life:Lyon was born in Stokes County, North Carolina...

X
6. William Parish Chilton, Sr.
William Parish Chilton, Sr.
William Parish Chilton was a prominent lawyer, jurist, and politician serving the people of Alabama and eventually the Confederate States of America. Tuesday 10 August 2010 marked the 200th anniversary of his birth....

X
7. David Clopton
David Clopton
David Clopton was a prominent Alabama politician.-Biography:Clopton was born in Putnam County, Georgia, and moved to Alabama in 1844. He graduated from Randolph-Macon College in 1840 and was admitted to the bar in 1841.Clopton represented Alabama's 3rd district in the United States House of...

X
8. James L. Pugh
James L. Pugh
James Lawrence Pugh was a U.S. senator from Alabama, as well as a member of the Confederate Congress during the American Civil War.- Biography :...

X
9. James Shelton Dickinson
James Shelton Dickinson
James Shelton Dickinson was a prominent Confederate States of America politician.He was born in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, and later moved to Alabama. He was a member of the Alabama State Senate from 1853 to 1855 and represented the state in the Second Confederate Congress.-References:*...

Arkansas

1. Felix Ives Batson
Felix Ives Batson
Felix Ives Batson was a prominent American lawyer and politician from Arkansas.Felix I. Batson was born in Dickson County, Tennessee. He later moved to Arkansas and established a law practice...

X
2. Rufus King Garland, Jr.
Rufus King Garland, Jr.
Rufus King Garland, Jr. was a prominent Arkansas politician.He was born in Tipton County, Tennessee, the older brother of Augustus Hill Garland. He later moved to Arkansas and served in the state legislature from 1858 to 1861...
3. Augustus Hill Garland
Augustus Hill Garland
Augustus Hill Garland was an Arkansas lawyer and politician. He was a senator in both the United States and the Confederate States, served as 11th Governor of Arkansas and as Attorney General of the United States in the first administration of Grover Cleveland.-Early life and law career:Garland...

X (resigned to become CS-senator 8 November 1864)
- David Williamson Carroll
  David Williamson Carroll
  David Williamson Carroll was a prominent Arkansas politician who served in Confederate Army and then the Confederate States Congress during the American Civil War.-Biography:...
  
  (took his seat on 11 January 1865 - Elected to fill vacancy on 24 October 1864)
4. Thomas Burton Hanly
Thomas Burton Hanly
Thomas Burton Hanly was an Arkansas lawyer and politician who served in the Congress of the Confederate States during the American Civil War....

X

Florida

1. Samuel St. George Rogers
Samuel St. George Rogers
Samuel St. George Rogers was a Confederate politician who served in the Confederate States Congress during the American Civil War. He-Biography:...
2. Robert Benjamin Hilton
Robert Benjamin Hilton
Robert Benjamin Hilton was a lawyer, newspaper editor, soldier, and Confederate politician from Florida who served in the Congress of the Confederate States during the American Civil War.-Biography:...

X

Georgia

1. Julian Hartridge
Julian Hartridge
Julian Hartridge was an American politician. He was born in Beaufort County, South Carolina and graduated from Brown University in 1848 and Harvard Law School in 1850. He was admitted to the bar in 1851 and practiced law in Savannah, Georgia...

X
2. William Ephraim Smith
William Ephraim Smith
William Ephraim Smith was a planter, lawyer, and politician from Georgia.-Biography:He was born in Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia. In 1846, he was admitted to the Georgia bar, which required a special act of the Georgia legislature due to his youth...
3. Mark Harden Blandford
Mark Harden Blandford
Mark Harden Blandford was an American soldier, attorney, politician, and judge. He was a Confederate Congressman during the American Civil War.-Biography:Mark Blandford was born in Warren County, Georgia...
4. Clifford Anderson
Clifford Anderson
Clifford Anderson was a prominent Georgia politician.-Biography:Anderson was born in Nottoway County, Virginia. He served as a state court Judge in Georgia from 1856 to 1858 and in the Georgia House of Representatives in 1859. He served in the Confederate States Army and represented Georgia in the...
5. John Troup Shewmake
John Troup Shewmake
John Troup Shewmake was a lawyer and Confederate politician during the American Civil War.Shewmake was born in Burke County, Georgia, and served in the Georgia State Senate in 1861 and again in 1879. He represented Georgia in the Second Confederate Congress from 1864 to 1865.-References:*...
6. Joseph Hubbard Echols
Joseph Hubbard Echols
Joseph Hubbard Echols was a prominent Confederate politician. He was born in Wilkes County, Georgia and served in the state legislature in 1861. He was elected to represent Georgia in the Second Confederate Congress from 1864 to 1865....
7. James Milton Smith
James Milton Smith
James Milton Smith was a Confederate infantry colonel in the American Civil War, as well as a post-war Governor of Georgia. He was noted as an ardent opponent of Radical Reconstruction.-Biography:...
8. George Nelson Lester
George Nelson Lester
George Nelson Lester was a Confederate politician who served in the Confederate States Congress during the American Civil War.-Biography:...
9. Hiram Parks Bell
Hiram Parks Bell
Hiram Parks Bell was a U.S. Representative and a Confederate Representative from the state of Georgia.-Biography:...
10. Warren Akin, Sr.
Warren Akin, Sr.
Warren Akin, Sr. was a Confederate politician who served in the Confederate States Congress during the American Civil War.He was born in Elbert County, Georgia. He served in the Georgia state legislature 1861 to 1863...

Kentucky

1. Willis Benson Machen
Willis Benson Machen
Willis Benson Machen was a Democratic U.S. Senator from Kentucky.-Early life:Willis B. Machen was born the son of Henry and Nancy Machen on April 10, 1810 in Caldwell County, Kentucky . He attended the common schools of the area and became a farmer...

X
2. George Washington Triplett
George Washington Triplett
George Washington Triplett was a Confederate politician who served in the Confederate States Congress during the American Civil War.-Biography:Triplett was born in Franklin County, Kentucky...
3. Henry English Read
Henry English Read
Henry English Read was an American politician from Kentucky who served in the Confederate States Congress during the American Civil War....

X
4. George Washington Ewing
George Washington Ewing
George Washington Ewing was a Confederate politician during the American Civil War.Ewing was born in Adairville, Kentucky, and educated in the common schools of Logan County. After passing the bar exam, he became an attorney. He served in the state legislature...

X
5. James Chrisman
James Chrisman
James Stone Chrisman was an antebellum United States Representative from Kentucky and then a member of the Confederate States Congress during the American Civil War....

X
6. Theodore Legrand Burnett
Theodore Legrand Burnett
Theodore Legrand Burnett was an American soldier, attorney, and a prominent politician in the Confederate States of America....

X
7. Horatio Washington Bruce
Horatio Washington Bruce
Horatio Washington Bruce was a Confederate politician during the American Civil War.-Early life:Horatio Bruce was born February 22, 1830 about one mile south of Vanceburg in Lewis County, Kentucky. He was the son of Alexander and Amanda Bruce and named for two of his uncles, Horatio and...

X
8. Humphrey Marshall
Humphrey Marshall (general)
Humphrey Marshall was a four-term antebellum United States Congressman and a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army and a Confederate Congressman during the American Civil War.-Early life and career:...
9. Eli Metcalfe Bruce
Eli Metcalfe Bruce
Eli Metcalfe Bruce was a philanthropist and a Representative from Kentucky in the First and Second Confederate Congresses. He was the principle financier of the Confederate government of Kentucky during the Civil War.-Early life:Eli Metcalfe Bruce was born near Flemingsburg, Kentucky, the son...

X
10. James William Moore
James William Moore
James William Moore was a Confederate politician during the American Civil War.Moore was born in Montgomery County, Kentucky, and served as a state court judge from 1851 to 1858. He represented the state in the First Confederate Congress and the Second Confederate Congress from 1862 to...

X
11. Benjamin Franklin Bradley
Benjamin Franklin Bradley
Benjamin Franklin Bradley was a politician in the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War.-Biography:Bradley was born in Georgetown in Scott County, Kentucky...
12. John Milton Elliott
John Milton Elliott
John Milton Elliott was an American lawyer and politician from Prestonsburg, Kentucky. He represented Kentucky in the United States House of Representatives from 1853 until 1857 and served in the First Confederate Congress during the American Civil War.-Life and career:Elliott was born in Scott...

X

Louisiana

1. Charles Jacques Villeré
Charles Jacques Villeré
Charles Jacques Villeré was a prominent Louisiana politician who served in the Confederate States Congress for two terms during the American Civil War....

X
2. Charles Magill Conrad
Charles Magill Conrad
Charles Magill Conrad was a Louisiana politician who served in the United States Senate, United States House of Representatives, and Confederate Congress...

X
3. Duncan Farrar Kenner X
4. Lucius Jacques Dupré
Lucius Jacques Dupré
Lucius Jacques Dupré was a prominent Confederate politician during the American Civil War.He was born in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, and served as a state court judge in 1853. He was a delegate to the Louisiana secession convention and served in the Confederate States Army...

X
5. Benjamin Lewis Hodge
Benjamin Lewis Hodge
Benjamin Lewis Hodge was a Confederate politician who served in the Confederate States Congress during the American Civil War.Hodge was born in Tennesseee and later moved to Caddo Parish, Louisiana...

(died 12 August 1864)
- Henry Gray
  Henry Gray (politician)
  Henry Gray, Jr. was an American lawyer and politician who served in the state legislatures of Mississippi and then Louisiana...
  
  (took his seat on 28 December 1864 - Elected to fill vacancy 17 October 1864)
6. John Perkins, Jr.
John Perkins, Jr.
John Perkins, Jr. was an antebellum U.S. Representative from Louisiana, and then a senator in the Confederate States Congress during the American Civil War....

X

Mississippi

1. Jehu Amaziah Orr
Jehu Amaziah Orr
Jehu Amaziah Orr was a Confederate politician who served in the Confederate States Congress during the American Civil War....
2. William Dunbar Holder
William Dunbar Holder
William Dunbar Holder was a prominent Confederate politician.-Biography:He was born in Franklin County, Tennessee, but later moved to Mississippi. He served in the state legislature in 1853 and was a colonel in the Confederate States Army. He represented the state in the Second Confederate...

X
3. Israel Victor Welch
Israel Victor Welch
Israel Victor Welch was a Confederate politician during the American Civil War.-Biography:Welch was born in Washington County, Alabama, and later moved to Mississippi. He served in the state legislature in 1858 and in the Confederate States Army...

X
4. Henry Cousins Chambers
Henry Cousins Chambers
Henry Cousins Chambers was a Confederate politician during the American Civil War.He was born in Limestone County, Alabama, the son of Henry H. Chambers. He later moved to Mississippi and served in the state legislature in 1859...

X
5. Otho Robards Singleton X
6. Ethelbert Barksdale
Ethelbert Barksdale
Ethelbert Barksdale was a U.S. Representative from Mississippi, as well as a member of the Confederate States Congress during the American Civil War....

X
7. John Tillman Lamkin
John Tillman Lamkin
John Tilman Lamkin was a Southern United States politician who served in the Confederate States Congress during the American Civil War. Also a relative of the descendant family of WilkinsLamkin was born in Augusta, Georgia, the son of William and Keziah Hart Snead Lamkin...

Missouri

In Confederate law, the people of Missouri were entitled to elect thirteen representatives. The state never implemented the reapportionment and continued to use its existing seven districts.

1. Thomas Lowndes Snead
Thomas Lowndes Snead
Thomas Lowndes Snead was a Confederate soldier and politician who served in the Confederate States Congress during the American Civil War.-Biography:...
2. Nimrod Lindsay Norton
Nimrod Lindsay Norton
Nimrod Lindsay Norton was a Confederate politician who served in the Confederate States Congress during the American Civil War.-Biography:...
3. John Bullock Clark, Sr.
4. Aaron H. Conrow
Aaron H. Conrow
Aaron Hackett Conrow was a Confederate Congressman and soldier during the American Civil War. He was murdered by bandits after moving to Mexico after the war's end.-Early life:...

X
5. George Graham Vest
George Graham Vest
George Graham Vest was a U.S. politician. Born in Frankfort, Kentucky, he was known for his skills in oration and debate. Vest, a lawyer as well as a politician, served as a Missouri Congressman, a Confederate Congressman during the Civil War, and finally a US Senator...

X (resigned 12 January 1865 to become CS-senator)
6. Peter Singleton Wilkes
Peter Singleton Wilkes
Peter Singleton Wilkes was a prominent Confederate politician who served in the Confederate States Congress during the American Civil War.-Biography:...
7. Robert Anthony Hatcher
Robert Anthony Hatcher
Robert Anthony Hatcher was a prominent Missouri politician who served in the Confederate States Congress during the American Civil War and then spent three terms in the United States House of Representatives after the war during Reconstruction.-Biography:Hatcher was born in Buckingham County,...

North Carolina

1. William Nathan Harrell Smith
William Nathan Harrell Smith
William Nathan Harrell Smith was a United States Representative from North Carolina; born in Murfreesboro, North Carolina, September 24, 1812; attended the common schools in Murfreesboro, N.C., Kingston, Rhode Island, and Colchester, Connecticut and East Lyme, Connecticut; was graduated from Yale...

X
2. Robert Rufus Bridgers
Robert Rufus Bridgers
Robert Rufus Bridgers was a Confederate politician during the American Civil War.-Biography:Bridgers was born in Edgecombe County, North Carolina, and served in the state legislature in 1844. He later represented the state in the First Confederate Congress and the Second Confederate Congress from...

X
3. James Thomas Leach
James Thomas Leach
James Thomas Leach was a Confederate politician who served in the Confederate States Congress during the American Civil War.Leach was born in Johnston County, North Carolina, and was a first cousin of James Madison Leach...
4. Thomas Charles Fuller
Thomas Charles Fuller
Thomas Charles Fuller was a prominent politician of the Confederate States of America and later a federal judge.-Biography:...
5. Josiah Turner
Josiah Turner
Josiah Turner, Jr. was an American lawyer, politician and newspaper editor from North Carolina.Turner, one-time president of the North Carolina Railroad Company, was elected to represent Orange County in the North Carolina House of Representatives and in the North Carolina Senate .Turner was a...
6. John Adams Gilmer
John Adams Gilmer
John Adams Gilmer was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina.Gilmer was born in Guilford County, North Carolina near Greensboro. His parents were Robert Shaw Gilmer and Anne Forbes. He was the brother of Confederate Maj. Gen Jeremy Francis Gilmer. Gilmer attended the public schools and...
7. James Madison Leach
James Madison Leach
James Madison Leach was a U.S. Representative from North Carolina.Leach was born on his the family homestead, “Lansdowne”, in Randolph County, North Carolina, January 17, 1815. He attended the common schools and Caldwell Institute in Greensboro, North Carolina. He graduated from the United...

(Representative-elect Samuel H. Christian died, in March 1864, before taking his seat. Leach was elected 21 April 1864. )
8. James Graham Ramsay
James Graham Ramsay
James Graham Ramsay was a North Carolina politician who served in the Confederate States Congress during the American Civil War....
9. Burgess Sidney Gaither
Burgess Sidney Gaither
Burgess Sidney Gaither was a prominent North Carolina politician and attorney who served in the Confederate States Congress during the American Civil War.-Early life and education:...
10. George Washington Logan
George Washington Logan
George Washington Logan was a prominent North Carolina politician who served in the Confederate States Congress during the American Civil War....

South Carolina

1. James Hervey Witherspoon, Jr.
James Hervey Witherspoon, Jr.
James Hervey Witherspoon, Jr. was a prominent Confederate States of America politician. He was a colonel in the Confederate army, and served as a representative from South Carolina in the Second Confederate Congress....
2. William Porcher Miles
William Porcher Miles
William Porcher Miles was among the ardent States' Rights advocates, supporters of slavery, and Southern secessionists who came to be known as the "Fire-Eaters." Born in South Carolina, he showed little early interest in politics and his early career included the study of law and a tenure as a...

X
3. Lewis Malone Ayer, Jr.
Lewis Malone Ayer, Jr.
Lewis Malone Ayer, Jr. was a South Carolina politician who served as a Confederate Congressman during the American Civil War....

X
4. William Dunlap Simpson
William Dunlap Simpson
----William Dunlap Simpson was the 78th Governor of South Carolina from February 26, 1879, when the previous governor, Wade Hampton, resigned to take his seat in the U.S...

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5. James Farrow
James Farrow
James Hamilton Farrow was a Confederate States of America politician from South Carolina during the American Civil War....

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6. William Waters Boyce
William Waters Boyce
William Waters Boyce was an attorney, South Carolina state politician, and a U.S. Congressman. He was also a prominent Confederate States of America politician during the American Civil War....

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Tennessee

1. Joseph Brown Heiskell
Joseph Brown Heiskell
Joseph Brown Heiskell was a prominent Tennessee politician who served in the Confederate States Congress during the American Civil War.-Biography:Heiskell was born in Knoxville, Tennessee...

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2. William Graham Swan
William Graham Swan
William Graham Swan was an American attorney and politician active primarily in East Tennessee during the mid-19th century. Swan served in the Confederate States Congress during the American Civil War, and served one term as mayor of Knoxville, Tennessee, from 1855 until late 1856...

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3. Arthur St. Clair Colyar
Arthur St. Clair Colyar
Arthur St. Clair Colyar was a Confederate politician who served in the Confederate States Congress during the American Civil War....
4. John Porry Murray
John Porry Murray
John Porry Murray was a Confederate politician who served in the Confederate States Congress during the American Civil War.Murray was born in Jackson County, Tennessee...
5. Henry Stuart Foote X (fled to Canada before completing term)
6. Edwin Augustus Keebel
Edwin Augustus Keebel
Edwin Augustus Keeble was a Tennessee politician who served in the Confederate States Congress during the American Civil War.-Biography:...
7. James McCallum
James McCallum (politician)
James McCallum was a Confederate politician who served in the Confederate States Congress during the American Civil War.McCallum was born in Robeson County, North Carolina, and later moved to Tennessee...
8. Thomas Menees
Thomas Menees
Thomas Menees was a Confederate politician who represented Tennessee in the Confederate States Congress during much of the American Civil War.-Biography:...

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9. John DeWitt Clinton Atkins
John DeWitt Clinton Atkins
John DeWitt Clinton Atkins was an American politician and a member of both the United States House of Representatives and Confederate Congress from Tennessee.-Biography:...

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10. John Vines Wright
John Vines Wright
John Vines Wright was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for the 7th congressional district of Tennessee.-Biography:Wright was born in Purdy, Tennessee, in McNairy County...

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11. Michael Walsh Cluskey
Michael Walsh Cluskey
Michael Walsh Cluskey was a Confederate politician who served in the Confederate States Congress during the American Civil War.-Biography:...

(Representative-elect David Maney Currin
David Maney Currin
David Maney Currin, Sr. was a Tennessee attorney and politician who served in the Confederate States Congress during the American Civil War.-Biography:Heiskell was born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, in 1817...

died, on 25 March 1864, before taking his seat. Cluskey was elected thereafter. )

Texas

1. Stephen Heard Darden
Stephen Heard Darden
Stephen Heard Darden was a prominent Texas politician who served in the Texas Senate and then as an officer in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War...

(Representative-elect John Allen Wilcox
John Allen Wilcox
John Allen Wilcox was a politician from Mississippi and Texas who served in the United States House of Representatives in the early 1850s and then in the Confederate Congress during the American Civil War.-Biography:...

died, on 7 February 1864, before taking his seat. Darden was elected August 1864. )
2. Caleb Claiborne Herbert
Caleb Claiborne Herbert
Caleb Claiborne Herbert was a Confederate politician during the American Civil War.He was born in Goochland County, Virginia, and later moved to Texas. He served in the State Senate from 1857 to 1859...

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3. Anthony Martin Branch
Anthony Martin Branch
Anthony Martin Branch was a Texas politician who served in the Confederate States Congress during the American Civil War.-Biography:Branch was born in Buckingham County, Virginia, and later moved to Texas...
4. Franklin Barlow Sexton
Franklin Barlow Sexton
Franklin Barlow Sexton was a politician from Texas who served in the Confederate Congress during the American Civil War....

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5. John Robert Baylor
6. Simpson Harris Morgan
Simpson Harris Morgan
Simpson Harris Morgan was a prominent Confederate politician who represented Texas in the Second Confederate Congress in 1864. He was the father-in-law of Albert Bacon Fall.-External links:*...

Virginia

1. Robert Latane Montague
Robert Latane Montague
Robert Latané Montague was a prominent Virginia politician who served in the Confederate States Congress during the American Civil War....
2. Robert Henry Whitfield
Robert Henry Whitfield
Robert Henry Whitfield was a prominent Confederate politician.He was born in Nansemond County, Virginia, in what is today Suffolk, Virginia. He represented the state in the Second Confederate Congress.-External links:*...

(resigned 2 March 1865)
3. Williams Carter Wickham
Williams Carter Wickham
Williams Carter Wickham was a lawyer, judge, politician, and an important Confederate cavalry general who fought in the Virginia campaigns during the American Civil War...
4. Thomas Saunders Gholson
Thomas Saunders Gholson
Thomas Saunders Gholson was a prominent Confederate politician. He was born in Brunswick County, Virginia and was the brother of James H. Gholson. He served as a state court judge from 1859 to 1863. He represented Virginia in the Second Confederate Congress from 1864 to 1865.-External links:*...
5. Thomas Stanley Bocock X
6. John Goode, Jr. X
7. William Cabell Rives
William Cabell Rives
William Cabell Rives was an American lawyer, politician and diplomat from Albemarle County, Virginia. He represented Virginia as a Jackson Democrat in both the U.S. House and Senate and also served as the U.S. minister to France....

(resigned 7 March 1865)
8. Daniel Coleman DeJarnette, Sr.
Daniel Coleman DeJarnette, Sr.
Daniel Coleman DeJarnette, Sr. was a prominent Virginia politician, serving in the United States Congress and then in the Confederate Congress during the American Civil War....

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9. David Funsten
David Funsten
David Funsten was a Congressman serving the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War....

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10. Frederick William Mackey Holliday
11. John Brown Baldwin
John Brown Baldwin
John Brown Baldwin was a politician in Virginia during the American Civil War, when he served in the Confederate Congress.-Biography:...

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12. Waller Redd Staples
Waller Redd Staples
Waller Redd Staples was a Congressman serving the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War.-Biography:...

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13. LaFayette McMullen
LaFayette McMullen
LaFayette "Fayette" McMullen was a 19th century politician, driver, teamster and banker from the U.S. state of Virginia and Washington Territory....
14. Samuel Augustine Miller
Samuel Augustine Miller
Samuel Augustine Miller was a politician, member of the Confederate Congress and military officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.-Biography:...

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15. Robert Johnston X
16. Charles Wells Russell
Charles Wells Russell
Charles Wells Russell was a prominent Confederate States of America politician during the American Civil War....

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Delegates

Non voting members of the House of Representatives.

Arizona Territory

Marcus H. MacWillie
Marcus H. MacWillie
Marcus H. MacWillie was a politician who represented the Confederate Arizona Territory in the Congress of the Confederate States during the American Civil War....

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Cherokee Nation

Elias Cornelius Boudinot
Elias Cornelius Boudinot
Elias Cornelius Boudinot was a delegate to the Arkansas secession convention, a colonel in the Confederate States Army, and a territorial representative in the Confederate Congress.-Life:...

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Creek and Seminole
Seminole
The Seminole are a Native American people originally of Florida, who now reside primarily in that state and Oklahoma. The Seminole nation emerged in a process of ethnogenesis out of groups of Native Americans, most significantly Creeks from what is now Georgia and Alabama, who settled in Florida in...

Nations

Samuel Benton Callahan
Samuel Benton Callahan
Samuel Benton Callahan was a Confederate politician during the American Civil War.Samuel Callahan was born in Mobile, Alabama, as a member of the Creek tribe. He represented the Creek and Seminole nations in the Second Confederate Congress.-Notes:http://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/5303...

Reference

The Historical Atlas of the Congresses of the Confederate States of America: 1861-1865, by Kenneth C. Martis (Simon and Schuster 1994)

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