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January 16, 1854
Daily National Era
Washington, District Of Columbia
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Roster of the 33rd U.S. Congress (1853-1855), listing all 62 Senators by state with parties (Whig, Democrat, Free-Soiler, etc.) and term expirations, plus 234 House Representatives and 5 Territorial Delegates by state and party affiliation.
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LIST OF MEMBERS OF THE 33D CONGRESS.
SENATE.
The Senate consists of two Senators from each State. There are thirty-one States, represented by sixty-two Senators.
Whigs, Italic; Democrats, in Roman. Those marked F. S., Free-Soilers or Abolitionists: U., those elected as 'Union men; S. R., those elected as Southern or State Rights men.
President
David R. Atchison
Secretary
Asbury Dickins.
Term expires.
Term expires.
ALABAMA.
MISSISSIPPI,
Benj. Fitzpatrick-- 1856
Stephen Adams, (U.) 1857
C.C. Clay ...-
1859
Vacancy.----
1859
ARKANSAS.
MISSOURI.
R. W. Johnson* - . 1855
David R. Atchison - 1855
Wm. K. Sebastian - 1859
Henry S. Geyer - - 1859
CONNECTICUT.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Truman Smith
1855
Moses Norris, jr -. 1855
Isaac Toucey
-1857
Jared W. Williams- 1859
CALIFORNIA.
NEW YORK.
William M. Gwin
- 1855
Wm. H. Seward. - 1855
John B. Weller - - 1857
Hamilton Fish -- 1857
DELAWARE.
NEW JERSEY.
James A. Bayard
1857
J.R. Thompson ..
1857
John. M. Clayton - 1859
William Wright - - 1859
FLORIDA.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Jackson Morton - 1855
George E. Badger 1855
Stephen R. Mallory 1857
Vacancy -
-1859
GEORGIA.
OHIO.
W.C.Dawson .. 1855
S. P. Chase (F.S.) - 1855
Robert Toombs (U.) 1859
Benjamin F. Wade 1857
INDIANA.
PENNSYLVANIA.
John Petit ---- - 1855
James Cooper - -- 1855
Jesso D. Bright - · 1857
Rich'd Brodhead, jr. 1857
ILLINOIS.
RHODE ISLAND.
James Shields - - 1855
Charles T. James - 1857
Stephen A. Douglas I859
Philip Allen ---- 1859
IOWA.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Augustus C. Dodge - 1855
A. P. Butler (S. R.) - 1855
George W. Jones - 1859
Josiah J. Evans - - 1859
KENTUCKY.
TENNESSEE.
Archibald Dixon- . 1855 James O. Jones - 1857
John B. Thompson 1859 John Bell - - - - . 1859
LOUISIANA.
TEXAS.
John Slidell - 1855
Thomas J. Rusk - - 1857
J.P. Benjamin - . 1859
Sam. Houston -. 1859
MAINE.
VERMONT.
Hannibal Hamlin - 1857
Vacancy
1855
Vacancy - --- -- 1859
Solomon Foot --. 1857
MASSACHUSETTS.
VIRGINIA.
Chs. Sumner (F. S.) 1857
J. M. Mason (S. R.) 1857
Edward Everett - - 1859
R. M.T. Hunter " 1859
MARYLAND.
WISCONSIN.
James A. Pearce- - 1855 Isaac P. Walker - . 1855
Thomas G. Pratt - 1857 Henry Dodge - - - 1857
MICHIGAN.
Lewis Cass ----- 1857
Chas. E. Stuart- - - 1859
* By Governor's appointment. The Legislature of Alabama will have two United States Senators to elect during the coming session
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
The House consists of two hundred and thirty-four Members and five Territorial Delegates, one new Territory having lately been formed, viz : Washington. The Delegates however, have no vote.
ALABAMA.
Democrats.-Philip Philips, Sampson W. Harris, Wm. R. Smith, George S Houghton, W. R. W. Cobb. James F. Dowdell.
Whig.-James Abercrombie.
ARKANSAS.
Democrats.-A. B. Greenwood, E. A. Warren.
CONNECTICUT
Democrats.-James T. Pratt, Colin M. Ingersoll, Nathan Belcher, Origen S. Seymour.
CALIFORNIA.
Democrats.-J. A. McDougall, Milton S. Latham.
DELAWARE.
Democrat.-George R. Riddle.
FLORIDA.
Democrat.-Augustus E. Maxwell.
GEORGIA.
Democrats.-James L. Seward, Alfred H. Colquitt, David J. Bailey, Wm. B. W. Dent, E. W. Chastain, Junius Hillyer
Whigs.-David A. Reese, Alex. H. Stephens.
IOWA.
Democrat.-Berghardt Henn.
Whig.-John P. Cook.
INDIANA.
Democrats.-Smith Miller, Wm. H. English Cyrus L. Dunham, James A. Lane, Thomas A. Hendricks, John G. Davis, Daniel Mace, Norman Eddy, E. M. Chamberlain, Andrew J. Harlan
Whig.-Samuel W. Parker.
ILLINOIS.
Democrats.-John Wentworth, W. A. Richardson, James Allen, William H. Bissell, William H. Wills Allen.
Whigs.-E. B. Washburne, J. C. Norton, James Knox, Richard Yates.
KENTUCKY.
Democrats.-Linn Boyd, James S. Chrisman, J. M. Elliott, J. C. Breckinridge, R. H. Stanton.
Whigs.-Benj. E. Gray, Presley Ewing, Clement S. Hill, Wm. Preston, Leander M. Cox.
LOUISIANA.
Democrats.—Wm. Dunbar, John Perkins, jr.
Whigs.— Hunt, John B. Smith.
MASSACHUSETTS.
Democrat -Nathaniel P. Banks.
Whigs.-Zeno Scudder, Samuel L. Crocker. J. Wiley Edmunds, Samuel H. Walley, William Appleton, Charles W. Upham, Tappan Wentworth, Edward Dickinson, John Z. Goodrich.
Independent Democrat.-Alex. De Witt.
MICHIGAN.
Democrats.-David Stuart, David A. Noble, Samuel Clark, Hester L. Stevens.
MAINE.
Democrats.-Moses McDonald, Samuel Mayall. T. J. D. Fuller.
Whigs.-E. Wilder Farley, Samuel P. Benson, Israel Washburn, jr.
MISSISSIPPI
Democrats.-Daniel B. Wright, Wm. S. Barry, O R. Singleton, Wiley P. Harris, Wm. Barksdale.
MARYLAND
Democrats.-Jacob Shower, Joshua Vansant, Henry May, Wm. T. Hamilton.
Whigs-John R. Franklin, A. R. Sollers.
MISSOURI
Democrats.-Thomas H. Benton, Alfred W. Lamb, John S. Phelps.
Whigs.-John G. Lindley, John G. Miller. Mordecai Oliver, Sam. Caruthers.
MINNESOTA.
Democrat.-Henry M. Rice.
NEW YORK.
Democrats.-James Maurice, Thomas W. Cumming, Hiram Walbridge, Mike Walsh, William M. Tweed, John Wheeler, William A. Walker, Francis B. Cutting, Jared V. Peck, William Murray, T. R. Westbrook, Gilbert Dean, Rufus W. Peckham, Charles Hughes, Bishop Perkins, Peter Rowe, Daniel T. Jones, Andrew Oliver, John J. Taylor, George Hastings. Reuben E. Fenton.
Whigs.-Russel Sage, George A. Simmons George W. Chase, O. B. Matteson, Henry Bennett, Edwin B. Morgan, David Carpenter Thomas H. Flagler, Solomon G. Haven.
Independent Democrats.--Gerrit Smith, Caleb Lyon, Benj. Pringle.
NEW JERSEY
Democrats.-Nathan T. Stratton, Charles Skelton, Samuel Lilly, George Vrall.
Whig.-A. C. M. Pennington.
NEW HAMPSHIRE:
Democrats.--George W. Morrison, Harry Hibbard.
NORTH CAROLINA
Democrats.--H. H. Shaw, Thomas Ruffin Wm. S. Ashe, Burton S. Craige, Thomas L. Clingman.
Whigs.-Sion H. Rogers, John Kerr, Richard C. Puryear.
NEW MEXICO
Democrat.-Jose Manuel Gallegos.
OHIO.
Democrats.-David T. Disney, Matthias H. Nichols, Alfred P. Edgerton, Andrew Ellison, Frederick W. Green, Thomas L. Ritchie, Edison B. Olds, Wm. D. Lindsey/Harvey H. Johnson, Wilson Shannon, George Bliss, Andrew Stuart.
Whigs.-John Scott Harrison, Aaron Harlan, Moses B. Corwin, John L. Taylor, W. R. Sapp, Edward Ball.
Independent Democrats.-L. D. Campbell, Edward Wade, J. R. Giddings.
OREGON
Democrat.--Joseph Lane.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Democrats --Thomas B. Florence, John Robbins, jr., Wm. H. Witte, John McNair, Samuel A. Bridges, Henry A. Muhlenberg, Christian W. Straub, H. B. Wright, Asa Packer, Galusha A. Grow, James Gamble, Wm. H. Kurtz. Augustus Drum, John L. Dawson, Michael C. Trout, Carlton B. Curtis.
Whigs -Joseph R. Chandler, William Everhart, Isaac E. Heister, Ner Middleswarth, Samuel L. Russel, John McCulloch, David Ritchie, Thomas M. Howe, John Dick.
RHODE ISLAND.
Democrats.-Thomas Davis, Benjamin B. Thurston.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
State Rights Democrats.-John McQueen, William Aiken, L. M. A. Keitt, P. S. Brooks, Jas. L. Orr, W. W. Boyce.
TENNESSEE.
Democrats -Brookins Campbell,* Wm. M. Churchwell, Samuel A. Smith. Geo. W. Jones, Frederick P. Stanton.
Whigs.--William Cullom, Charles Ready R. M. Bugg, Felix K. Zollicoffer, Emerson Etheridge.
TEXAS.
Democrats.-Geo. T. Wood, Peter H. Bell.
UTAH.
Democrat,-John M. Bernhisel.
VIRGINIA.
Democrats.--Thomas H. Bayly, J. M. Miller, John S. Caskie, William O. Goode, Thos S. Bocock, Paulus Powell. William Smith, Charles J. Faulkner. H. A. Edmondson, John Letcher, Z. Kidwell, J. F. Snodgrass, Fayette McMullen.
VERMONT.
Whigs.-James Meacham, Andrew Tracy, Alvah Sabin.
WISCONSIN.
Democrats.--Daniel Wells, jr, B. C. Eastman, John B. Macy.
*Deceased.
SENATE.
The Senate consists of two Senators from each State. There are thirty-one States, represented by sixty-two Senators.
Whigs, Italic; Democrats, in Roman. Those marked F. S., Free-Soilers or Abolitionists: U., those elected as 'Union men; S. R., those elected as Southern or State Rights men.
President
David R. Atchison
Secretary
Asbury Dickins.
Term expires.
Term expires.
ALABAMA.
MISSISSIPPI,
Benj. Fitzpatrick-- 1856
Stephen Adams, (U.) 1857
C.C. Clay ...-
1859
Vacancy.----
1859
ARKANSAS.
MISSOURI.
R. W. Johnson* - . 1855
David R. Atchison - 1855
Wm. K. Sebastian - 1859
Henry S. Geyer - - 1859
CONNECTICUT.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Truman Smith
1855
Moses Norris, jr -. 1855
Isaac Toucey
-1857
Jared W. Williams- 1859
CALIFORNIA.
NEW YORK.
William M. Gwin
- 1855
Wm. H. Seward. - 1855
John B. Weller - - 1857
Hamilton Fish -- 1857
DELAWARE.
NEW JERSEY.
James A. Bayard
1857
J.R. Thompson ..
1857
John. M. Clayton - 1859
William Wright - - 1859
FLORIDA.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Jackson Morton - 1855
George E. Badger 1855
Stephen R. Mallory 1857
Vacancy -
-1859
GEORGIA.
OHIO.
W.C.Dawson .. 1855
S. P. Chase (F.S.) - 1855
Robert Toombs (U.) 1859
Benjamin F. Wade 1857
INDIANA.
PENNSYLVANIA.
John Petit ---- - 1855
James Cooper - -- 1855
Jesso D. Bright - · 1857
Rich'd Brodhead, jr. 1857
ILLINOIS.
RHODE ISLAND.
James Shields - - 1855
Charles T. James - 1857
Stephen A. Douglas I859
Philip Allen ---- 1859
IOWA.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Augustus C. Dodge - 1855
A. P. Butler (S. R.) - 1855
George W. Jones - 1859
Josiah J. Evans - - 1859
KENTUCKY.
TENNESSEE.
Archibald Dixon- . 1855 James O. Jones - 1857
John B. Thompson 1859 John Bell - - - - . 1859
LOUISIANA.
TEXAS.
John Slidell - 1855
Thomas J. Rusk - - 1857
J.P. Benjamin - . 1859
Sam. Houston -. 1859
MAINE.
VERMONT.
Hannibal Hamlin - 1857
Vacancy
1855
Vacancy - --- -- 1859
Solomon Foot --. 1857
MASSACHUSETTS.
VIRGINIA.
Chs. Sumner (F. S.) 1857
J. M. Mason (S. R.) 1857
Edward Everett - - 1859
R. M.T. Hunter " 1859
MARYLAND.
WISCONSIN.
James A. Pearce- - 1855 Isaac P. Walker - . 1855
Thomas G. Pratt - 1857 Henry Dodge - - - 1857
MICHIGAN.
Lewis Cass ----- 1857
Chas. E. Stuart- - - 1859
* By Governor's appointment. The Legislature of Alabama will have two United States Senators to elect during the coming session
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
The House consists of two hundred and thirty-four Members and five Territorial Delegates, one new Territory having lately been formed, viz : Washington. The Delegates however, have no vote.
ALABAMA.
Democrats.-Philip Philips, Sampson W. Harris, Wm. R. Smith, George S Houghton, W. R. W. Cobb. James F. Dowdell.
Whig.-James Abercrombie.
ARKANSAS.
Democrats.-A. B. Greenwood, E. A. Warren.
CONNECTICUT
Democrats.-James T. Pratt, Colin M. Ingersoll, Nathan Belcher, Origen S. Seymour.
CALIFORNIA.
Democrats.-J. A. McDougall, Milton S. Latham.
DELAWARE.
Democrat.-George R. Riddle.
FLORIDA.
Democrat.-Augustus E. Maxwell.
GEORGIA.
Democrats.-James L. Seward, Alfred H. Colquitt, David J. Bailey, Wm. B. W. Dent, E. W. Chastain, Junius Hillyer
Whigs.-David A. Reese, Alex. H. Stephens.
IOWA.
Democrat.-Berghardt Henn.
Whig.-John P. Cook.
INDIANA.
Democrats.-Smith Miller, Wm. H. English Cyrus L. Dunham, James A. Lane, Thomas A. Hendricks, John G. Davis, Daniel Mace, Norman Eddy, E. M. Chamberlain, Andrew J. Harlan
Whig.-Samuel W. Parker.
ILLINOIS.
Democrats.-John Wentworth, W. A. Richardson, James Allen, William H. Bissell, William H. Wills Allen.
Whigs.-E. B. Washburne, J. C. Norton, James Knox, Richard Yates.
KENTUCKY.
Democrats.-Linn Boyd, James S. Chrisman, J. M. Elliott, J. C. Breckinridge, R. H. Stanton.
Whigs.-Benj. E. Gray, Presley Ewing, Clement S. Hill, Wm. Preston, Leander M. Cox.
LOUISIANA.
Democrats.—Wm. Dunbar, John Perkins, jr.
Whigs.— Hunt, John B. Smith.
MASSACHUSETTS.
Democrat -Nathaniel P. Banks.
Whigs.-Zeno Scudder, Samuel L. Crocker. J. Wiley Edmunds, Samuel H. Walley, William Appleton, Charles W. Upham, Tappan Wentworth, Edward Dickinson, John Z. Goodrich.
Independent Democrat.-Alex. De Witt.
MICHIGAN.
Democrats.-David Stuart, David A. Noble, Samuel Clark, Hester L. Stevens.
MAINE.
Democrats.-Moses McDonald, Samuel Mayall. T. J. D. Fuller.
Whigs.-E. Wilder Farley, Samuel P. Benson, Israel Washburn, jr.
MISSISSIPPI
Democrats.-Daniel B. Wright, Wm. S. Barry, O R. Singleton, Wiley P. Harris, Wm. Barksdale.
MARYLAND
Democrats.-Jacob Shower, Joshua Vansant, Henry May, Wm. T. Hamilton.
Whigs-John R. Franklin, A. R. Sollers.
MISSOURI
Democrats.-Thomas H. Benton, Alfred W. Lamb, John S. Phelps.
Whigs.-John G. Lindley, John G. Miller. Mordecai Oliver, Sam. Caruthers.
MINNESOTA.
Democrat.-Henry M. Rice.
NEW YORK.
Democrats.-James Maurice, Thomas W. Cumming, Hiram Walbridge, Mike Walsh, William M. Tweed, John Wheeler, William A. Walker, Francis B. Cutting, Jared V. Peck, William Murray, T. R. Westbrook, Gilbert Dean, Rufus W. Peckham, Charles Hughes, Bishop Perkins, Peter Rowe, Daniel T. Jones, Andrew Oliver, John J. Taylor, George Hastings. Reuben E. Fenton.
Whigs.-Russel Sage, George A. Simmons George W. Chase, O. B. Matteson, Henry Bennett, Edwin B. Morgan, David Carpenter Thomas H. Flagler, Solomon G. Haven.
Independent Democrats.--Gerrit Smith, Caleb Lyon, Benj. Pringle.
NEW JERSEY
Democrats.-Nathan T. Stratton, Charles Skelton, Samuel Lilly, George Vrall.
Whig.-A. C. M. Pennington.
NEW HAMPSHIRE:
Democrats.--George W. Morrison, Harry Hibbard.
NORTH CAROLINA
Democrats.--H. H. Shaw, Thomas Ruffin Wm. S. Ashe, Burton S. Craige, Thomas L. Clingman.
Whigs.-Sion H. Rogers, John Kerr, Richard C. Puryear.
NEW MEXICO
Democrat.-Jose Manuel Gallegos.
OHIO.
Democrats.-David T. Disney, Matthias H. Nichols, Alfred P. Edgerton, Andrew Ellison, Frederick W. Green, Thomas L. Ritchie, Edison B. Olds, Wm. D. Lindsey/Harvey H. Johnson, Wilson Shannon, George Bliss, Andrew Stuart.
Whigs.-John Scott Harrison, Aaron Harlan, Moses B. Corwin, John L. Taylor, W. R. Sapp, Edward Ball.
Independent Democrats.-L. D. Campbell, Edward Wade, J. R. Giddings.
OREGON
Democrat.--Joseph Lane.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Democrats --Thomas B. Florence, John Robbins, jr., Wm. H. Witte, John McNair, Samuel A. Bridges, Henry A. Muhlenberg, Christian W. Straub, H. B. Wright, Asa Packer, Galusha A. Grow, James Gamble, Wm. H. Kurtz. Augustus Drum, John L. Dawson, Michael C. Trout, Carlton B. Curtis.
Whigs -Joseph R. Chandler, William Everhart, Isaac E. Heister, Ner Middleswarth, Samuel L. Russel, John McCulloch, David Ritchie, Thomas M. Howe, John Dick.
RHODE ISLAND.
Democrats.-Thomas Davis, Benjamin B. Thurston.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
State Rights Democrats.-John McQueen, William Aiken, L. M. A. Keitt, P. S. Brooks, Jas. L. Orr, W. W. Boyce.
TENNESSEE.
Democrats -Brookins Campbell,* Wm. M. Churchwell, Samuel A. Smith. Geo. W. Jones, Frederick P. Stanton.
Whigs.--William Cullom, Charles Ready R. M. Bugg, Felix K. Zollicoffer, Emerson Etheridge.
TEXAS.
Democrats.-Geo. T. Wood, Peter H. Bell.
UTAH.
Democrat,-John M. Bernhisel.
VIRGINIA.
Democrats.--Thomas H. Bayly, J. M. Miller, John S. Caskie, William O. Goode, Thos S. Bocock, Paulus Powell. William Smith, Charles J. Faulkner. H. A. Edmondson, John Letcher, Z. Kidwell, J. F. Snodgrass, Fayette McMullen.
VERMONT.
Whigs.-James Meacham, Andrew Tracy, Alvah Sabin.
WISCONSIN.
Democrats.--Daniel Wells, jr, B. C. Eastman, John B. Macy.
*Deceased.
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Comprehensive list of members of the 33rd United States Congress, including the Senate with 62 senators from 31 states, noting parties (Whigs in italic, Democrats in Roman, Free-Soilers, Union men, Southern Rights), term expirations, vacancies, and appointments; and the House of Representatives with 234 members and 5 territorial delegates from states and territories, grouped by party (Democrats, Whigs, Independent Democrats, State Rights Democrats).