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21st United States Congress
20th ← → 22nd
United States Capitol (1827)
March 4, 1829 – March 4, 1831
Members	48 senators 213 representatives 3 non-voting delegates
Senate majority	Jacksonian
Senate President	John C. Calhoun (J)
House majority	Jacksonian
House Speaker	Andrew Stevenson (J)
Sessions
Special (Senate): March 4, 1829 – March 17, 1829 1st: December 7, 1829 – May 31, 1830 2nd: December 6, 1830 – March 3, 1831

The Twenty-first United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C. from March 4, 1829, to March 4, 1831, during the first two years of Andrew Jackson's presidency. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the Fourth Census of the United States in 1820. Both chambers had a Jacksonian majority.

Major events

March 4, 1829: Andrew Jackson inaugurated President

Main articles: 1829 in the United States, 1830 in the United States, and 1831 in the United States

• March 4, 1829: Andrew Jackson became President of the United States

Major legislation

Main article: Major legislation: 21st United States Congress

• May 28, 1830: Indian Removal Act, ch. 148, 4 Stat. 411

Not enacted

• May 27, 1830: Maysville Road Bill vetoed

Treaties

• September 27, 1830: The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, the first removal treaty after the passage of the Indian Removal Act, is signed with the Choctaw.
• February 24, 1831: Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek proclaimed.

Party summary

The count below identifies party affiliations at the beginning of the first session of this congress. Changes resulting from subsequent replacements are shown below in the "Changes in membership" section.

Senate

President of the Senate
John C. Calhoun.

	Party (shading shows control)			Total	Vacant
	Anti- Jacksonian (Anti-J)	Jacksonian (J)	Other
End of previous congress	21	27	0	48	0
Begin	22	26	0	48	0
End		25		47	1
Final voting share	46.8%	53.2%	0.0%
Beginning of next congress	21	24	2	47	1

House of Representatives

	Party (shading shows control)				Total	Vacant
	Anti- Jacksonian (Anti-J)	Anti- Masonic (AM)	Jacksonian (J)	Other (0)
End of previous congress	101	0	111	0	212	1
Begin	72	4	133	0	209	4
End		5	135		212	1
Final voting share	34.0%	2.4%	63.7%	0.0%
Beginning of next congress	64	16	128	4	212	1

Leadership

President pro tempore
Samuel Smith.

Senate

• President: John C. Calhoun (J)
• President pro tempore: Samuel Smith (J)

House of Representatives

• Speaker: Andrew Stevenson (J)

Members

This list is arranged by chamber, then by state. Senators are listed by class, and Representatives are listed by district.

Skip to House of Representatives, below

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, which indicate the cycle of their election. In this Congress, Class 1 meant their term began in the last Congress, facing re-election in 1832; Class 2 meant their term began with this Congress, facing re-election in 1834; and Class 3 meant their term ended with this Congress, facing re-election in 1830.

Alabama

• 2. William R. D. King (J)
• 3. John McKinley (J)

Connecticut

• 1. Samuel A. Foote (Anti-J)
• 3. Calvin Willey (Anti-J)

Delaware

• 1. Louis McLane (J), until April 16, 1829
  • Arnold Naudain (Anti-J), from January 7, 1830
• 2. John M. Clayton (Anti-J)

Georgia

• 2. George Troup (J)
• 3. John M. Berrien (J), until March 9, 1829
  • John Forsyth (J), from November 9, 1829

Illinois

• 2. John McLean (J), until October 14, 1830
  • David J. Baker (J), November 12, 1830 – December 11, 1830
  • John M. Robinson (J), from December 11, 1830
• 3. Elias Kane (J)

Indiana

• 1. James Noble (Anti-J), until February 26, 1831, vacant for remainder of term
• 3. William Hendricks (Anti-J)

Kentucky

• 2. George M. Bibb (J)
• 3. John Rowan (J)

Louisiana

• 2. Edward Livingston (J)
• 3. Josiah S. Johnston (Anti-J)

Maine

• 1. John Holmes (Anti-J)
• 2. Peleg Sprague (Anti-J)

Maryland

• 1. Samuel Smith (J)
• 3. Ezekiel F. Chambers (Anti-J)

Massachusetts

• 1. Daniel Webster (Anti-J)
• 2. Nathaniel Silsbee (Anti-J)

Mississippi

• 1. Powhatan Ellis (J)
• 2. Thomas B. Reed (J), until November 26, 1829
  • Robert H. Adams (J), January 6, 1830 – July 2, 1830
  • George Poindexter (J), from October 15, 1830

Missouri

• 1. Thomas H. Benton (J)
• 3. David Barton (Anti-J)

New Hampshire

• 2. Samuel Bell (Anti-J)
• 3. Levi Woodbury (J)

New Jersey

• 1. Mahlon Dickerson (J)
• 2. Theodore Frelinghuysen (Anti-J)

New York

• 1. Charles E. Dudley (J)
• 3. Nathan Sanford (Anti-J)

North Carolina

• 2. John Branch (J), until March 9, 1829
  • Bedford Brown (J), from December 9, 1829
• 3. James Iredell, Jr. (J)

Ohio

• 1. Benjamin Ruggles (Anti-J)
• 3. Jacob Burnet (Anti-J)

Pennsylvania

• 1. Isaac D. Barnard (J)
• 3. William Marks (Anti-J)

Rhode Island

• 1. Asher Robbins (Anti-J)
• 2. Nehemiah R. Knight (Anti-J)

South Carolina

• 2. Robert Y. Hayne (J)
• 3. William Smith (J)

Tennessee

• 1. John Eaton (J), until March 9, 1829
  • Felix Grundy (J), from October 19, 1829
• 2. Hugh Lawson White (J)

Vermont

• 1. Horatio Seymour (Anti-J)
• 3. Dudley Chase (Anti-J)

Virginia

• 1. John Tyler (J)
• 2. Littleton W. Tazewell (J)

House of Representatives

Members are listed by their districts.

Alabama

• 1. Clement C. Clay (J)
• 2. Robert E. B. Baylor (J)
• 3. Dixon H. Lewis (J)

Connecticut

All representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket.

• At-large. Noyes Barber (Anti-J)
• At-large. William W. Ellsworth (Anti-J)
• At-large. Jabez W. Huntington (Anti-J)
• At-large. Ralph I. Ingersoll (Anti-J)
• At-large. William L. Storrs (Anti-J)
• At-large. Ebenezer Young (Anti-J)

Delaware

• At-large. Kensey Johns, Jr. (Anti-J)

Georgia

All representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket.

• At-large. Thomas F. Foster (J)
• At-large. Charles E. Haynes (J)
• At-large. Henry G. Lamar (J), from December 7, 1829
• At-large. Wilson Lumpkin (J)
• At-large. Wiley Thompson (J)
• At-large. James M. Wayne (J)
• At-large. Richard Henry Wilde (J)

Illinois

• At-large. Joseph Duncan (J)

Indiana

• 1. Ratliff Boon (J)
• 2. Jonathan Jennings (Anti-J)
• 3. John Test (Anti-J)

Kentucky

• 1. Henry Daniel (J)
• 2. Nicholas D. Coleman (J)
• 3. James Clark (Anti-J)
• 4. Robert P. Letcher (Anti-J)
• 5. Richard M. Johnson (J)
• 6. Joseph Lecompte (J)
• 7. John Kincaid (J)
• 8. Nathan Gaither (J)
• 9. Charles A. Wickliffe (J)
• 10. Joel Yancey (J)
• 11. Thomas Chilton (J)
• 12. Chittenden Lyon (J)

Louisiana

• 1. Edward D. White (Anti-J)
• 2. Henry H. Gurley (Anti-J)
• 3. Walter H. Overton (J)

Maine

• 1. Rufus McIntire (J)
• 2. John Anderson (J)
• 3. Joseph F. Wingate (Anti-J)
• 4. George Evans (Anti-J), from July 20, 1829
• 5. James W. Ripley (J), until March 12, 1830
  • Cornelius Holland (J), from December 6, 1830
• 6. Leonard Jarvis (J)
• 7. Samuel Butman (Anti-J)

Maryland

The 5th district was a plural district with two representatives.

• 1. Clement Dorsey (Anti-J)
• 2. Benedict J. Semmes (Anti-J)
• 3. George C. Washington (Anti-J)
• 4. Michael C. Sprigg (J)
• 5. Elias Brown (J)
• 5. Benjamin C. Howard (J)
• 6. George E. Mitchell (J), from December 7, 1829
• 7. Richard Spencer (J)
• 8. Ephraim K. Wilson (J)

Massachusetts

• 1. Benjamin Gorham (Anti-J)
• 2. Benjamin W. Crowninshield (Anti-J)
• 3. John Varnum (Anti-J)
• 4. Edward Everett (Anti-J)
• 5. John Davis (Anti-J)
• 6. Joseph G. Kendall (Anti-J)
• 7. George J. Grennell, Jr. (Anti-J)
• 8. Isaac C. Bates (Anti-J)
• 9. Henry W. Dwight (Anti-J)
• 10. John Bailey (Anti-J)
• 11. Joseph Richardson (Anti-J)
• 12. James L. Hodges (Anti-J)
• 13. John Reed, Jr. (Anti-J)

Mississippi

• At-large. Thomas Hinds (J)

Missouri

• At-large. Spencer D. Pettis (J)

New Hampshire

All representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket.

• At-large. John Brodhead (J)
• At-large. Thomas Chandler (J)
• At-large. Joseph Hammons (J)
• At-large. Jonathan Harvey (J)
• At-large. Henry Hubbard (J)
• At-large. John W. Weeks (J)

New Jersey

All representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket.

• At-large. Lewis Condict (Anti-J)
• At-large. Richard M. Cooper (Anti-J)
• At-large. Thomas H. Hughes (Anti-J)
• At-large. Isaac Pierson (Anti-J)
• At-large. James F. Randolph (Anti-J)
• At-large. Samuel Swan (Anti-J)

New York

There were three plural districts, the 20th & 26th had two representatives each, the 3rd had three representatives.

• 1. James Lent (J)
• 2. Jacob Crocheron (J)
• 3. Churchill C. Cambreleng (J)
• 3. Gulian C. Verplanck (J)
• 3. Campbell P. White (J)
• 4. Henry B. Cowles (Anti-J)
• 5. Abraham Bockee (J)
• 6. Hector Craig (J), until July 12, 1830
  • Samuel W. Eager (Anti-J), from November 2, 1830
• 7. Charles G. DeWitt (J)
• 8. James Strong (Anti-J)
• 9. John D. Dickinson (Anti-J)
• 10. Ambrose Spencer (Anti-J)
• 11. Perkins King (J)
• 12. Peter I. Borst (J)
• 13. William G. Angel (J)
• 14. Henry R. Storrs (Anti-J)
• 15. Michael Hoffman (J)
• 16. Benedict Arnold (Anti-J)
• 17. John W. Taylor (Anti-J)
• 18. Henry C. Martindale (Anti-J)
• 19. Isaac Finch (Anti-J)
• 20. Joseph Hawkins (Anti-J)
• 20. George Fisher (Anti-J), until February 5, 1830
  • Jonah Sanford (J), from November 3, 1830
• 21. Robert Monell (J), until February 21, 1831, vacant thereafter
• 22. Thomas Beekman (Anti-J)
• 23. Jonas Earll, Jr. (J)
• 24. Gershom Powers (J)
• 25. Thomas Maxwell (J)
• 26. Jehiel H. Halsey (J)
• 26. Robert S. Rose (Anti-M)
• 27. Timothy Childs (Anti-M)
• 28. John Magee (J)
• 29. Phineas L. Tracy (Anti-M)
• 30. Ebenezer F. Norton (J)

North Carolina

• 1. William B. Shepard (Anti-J)
• 2. Willis Alston (J)
• 3. Thomas H. Hall (J)
• 4. Jesse Speight (J)
• 5. Gabriel Holmes (J), until September 26, 1829
  • Edward B. Dudley (J), from November 10, 1829
• 6. Robert Potter (J)
• 7. Edmund Deberry (Anti-J)
• 8. Daniel L. Barringer (J)
• 9. Augustine H. Shepperd (J)
• 10. Abraham Rencher (J)
• 11. Henry W. Connor (J)
• 12. Samuel P. Carson (J)
• 13. Lewis Williams (Anti-J)

Ohio

• 1. James Findlay (J)
• 2. James Shields (J)
• 3. Joseph H. Crane (Anti-J)
• 4. Joseph Vance (Anti-J)
• 5. William Russell (J)
• 6. William Creighton, Jr. (Anti-J)
• 7. Samuel F. Vinton (Anti-J)
• 8. William Stanbery (J)
• 9. William W. Irvin (J)
• 10. William Kennon, Sr. (J)
• 11. John M. Goodenow (J), until April 9, 1830
  • Humphrey H. Leavitt (J), from December 6, 1830
• 12. John Thomson (J)
• 13. Elisha Whittlesey (Anti-J)
• 14. Mordecai Bartley (Anti-J)

Pennsylvania

There were six plural districts, the 7th, 8th, 11th & 16th had two representatives each, the 4th & 9th had three representatives each.

• 1. Joel B. Sutherland (J)
• 2. Joseph Hemphill (J)
• 3. Daniel H. Miller (J)
• 4. James Buchanan (J)
• 4. Joshua Evans, Jr. (J)
• 4. George G. Leiper (J)
• 5. John B. Sterigere (J)
• 6. Innis Green (J)
• 7. Joseph Fry, Jr. (J)
• 7. Henry A. P. Muhlenberg (J)
• 8. Samuel D. Ingham (J), until March 1829
  • Peter Ihrie, Jr. (J), from October 13, 1829
• 8. George Wolf (J), until March 1829
  • Samuel A. Smith (J), from October 13, 1829
• 9. James Ford (J)
• 9. Alem Marr (J)
• 9. Philander Stephens (J)
• 10. Adam King (J)
• 11. Thomas H. Crawford (J)
• 11. William Ramsey (J)
• 12. John Scott (J)
• 13. Chauncey Forward (J)
• 14. Thomas Irwin (J)
• 15. William McCreery (J)
• 16. Harmar Denny (Anti-M), from December 15, 1829, after William Wilkins resigned before qualifying
• 16. John Gilmore (J)
• 17. Richard Coulter (J)
• 18. Thomas H. Sill (Anti-J)

Rhode Island

Both representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket.

• At-large. Tristam Burges (Anti-J)
• At-large. Dutee J. Pearce (Anti-J)

South Carolina

• 1. William Drayton (J)
• 2. Robert W. Barnwell (J)
• 3. John Campbell (J)
• 4. William D. Martin (J)
• 5. George McDuffie (J)
• 6. Warren R. Davis (J)
• 7. William T. Nuckolls (J)
• 8. James Blair (J)
• 9. Starling Tucker (J)

Tennessee

• 1. John Blair (J)
• 2. Pryor Lea (J)
• 3. James I. Standifer (J)
• 4. Jacob C. Isacks (J)
• 5. Robert Desha (J)
• 6. James K. Polk (J)
• 7. John Bell (J)
• 8. Cave Johnson (J)
• 9. David Crockett (Anti-J)

Vermont

• 1. Jonathan Hunt (Anti-J)
• 2. Rollin C. Mallary (Anti-J)
• 3. Horace Everett (Anti-J)
• 4. Benjamin Swift (Anti-J)
• 5. William Cahoon (Anti-M)

Virginia

• 1. Thomas Newton, Jr. (Anti-J), until March 9, 1830
  • George Loyall (J), from March 9, 1830
• 2. James Trezvant (J)
• 3. William S. Archer (J)
• 4. Mark Alexander (J)
• 5. Thomas T. Bouldin (J)
• 6. Thomas Davenport (J)
• 7. Nathaniel H. Claiborne (J)
• 8. Richard Coke, Jr. (J)
• 9. Andrew Stevenson (J)
• 10. William C. Rives (J), until April 17, 1829
  • William F. Gordon (J), from January 25, 1830
• 11. Philip P. Barbour (J), until October 15, 1830
  • John M. Patton (J), from November 25, 1830
• 12. John Roane (J)
• 13. John Taliaferro (Anti-J)
• 14. Charles F. Mercer (Anti-J)
• 15. John S. Barbour (J)
• 16. William Armstrong (Anti-J)
• 17. Robert Allen (J)
• 18. Philip Doddridge (Anti-J)
• 19. William McCoy (J)
• 20. Robert Craig (J)
• 21. Lewis Maxwell (Anti-J)
• 22. Alexander Smyth (J), until April 17, 1830
  • Joseph Draper (J), from December 6, 1830

Non-voting members

• Arkansas Territory. Ambrose H. Sevier
• Florida Territory. Joseph M. White
• Michigan Territory. John Biddle, until February 21, 1831, vacant thereafter

Speaker of the House
Andrew Stevenson.

Changes in membership

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

Senate

• Replacements: 4
  • Jacksonians (J): no net change
  • Anti-Jacksonians (AJ): no net change
• Deaths: 4
• Resignations: 4
• Interim appointments: 1
• Total seats with changes: 7

See also: List of special elections to the United States Senate

|- | Georgia
(3) | style="background-color:#DDEEFF" | John M. Berrien (J) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned March 9, 1829, to become U.S. Attorney General.
Successor elected November 9, 1829. | style="background-color:#DDEEFF" | John Forsyth (J) | Installed November 9, 1829

|- | North Carolina
(2) | style="background-color:#DDEEFF" | John Branch (J) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned March 9, 1829, after being appointed U.S. Secretary of the Navy.
Successor elected December 9, 1829. | style="background-color:#DDEEFF" | Bedford Brown (J) | Installed December 9, 1829

|- | Tennessee
(1) | style="background-color:#DDEEFF" | John Eaton (J) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned March 9, 1829, after being appointed U.S. Secretary of War.
Successor elected October 19, 1829. | style="background-color:#DDEEFF" | Felix Grundy (J) | Installed October 19, 1829

|- | Delaware
(1) | style="background-color:#DDEEFF" | Louis McLane (J) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned April 29, 1829, to become U.S. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United Kingdom.
Successor elected January 7, 1830. | style="background-color:#FFE6B0" | Arnold Naudain (AJ) | Installed January 7, 1830

|- | Mississippi
(2) | style="background-color:#DDEEFF" | Thomas B. Reed (J) | style="font-size:80%" | Died November 26, 1829.
Successor elected January 6, 1830. | style="background-color:#DDEEFF" | Robert H. Adams (J) | Installed January 6, 1830

|- | Mississippi
(2) | style="background-color:#DDEEFF" | Robert H. Adams (J) | style="font-size:80%" | Died July 2, 1830.
Successor appointed October 15, 1830, to continue the term, and subsequently elected. | style="background-color:#DDEEFF" | George Poindexter (J) | Installed October 15, 1830

|- | Illinois
(2) | style="background-color:#DDEEFF" | John McLean (J) | style="font-size:80%" | Died October 14, 1830.
Successor appointed November 12, 1830, to continue the term. | style="background-color:#DDEEFF" | David J. Baker (J) | Installed November 12, 1830

|- | Illinois
(2) | style="background-color:#DDEEFF" | David J. Baker (J) | style="font-size:80%" | Appointee retired with elected successor qualified.
Successor elected December 11, 1830. | style="background-color:#DDEEFF" | John M. Robinson (J) | Installed December 11, 1830

|- | Indiana
(1) | style="background-color:#FFE6B0" | James Noble (AJ) | style="font-size:80%" | Died February 26, 1831.
Seat filled next Congress. | Vacant | Not filled this Congress

|}

House of Representatives

• Replacements: 5
  • Jacksonians (J): 1 seat net loss
  • Anti-Jacksonian (AJ): 1 seat net gain
• Deaths: 2
• Resignations: 10
• Contested election: 2

Total seats with changes: 15

Main article: List of special elections to the United States House of Representatives

Template:Ordinal US Congress Rep |- | Maryland
6th | Vacant | style="font-size:80%" | Maryland elected its members October 5, 1829 after the term began but before Congress convened. Rep-elect sworn in December after convening. | style="background-color:#DDEEFF" | George Edward Mitchell (J) | Seated December 7, 1829 |- | Georgia
at-large | Vacant | style="font-size:80%" | George Gilmer (Jacksonian) was redistricted from the 1st district and re-elected but failed to accept the position within the legal time frame. Governor ordered a new election. | style="background-color:#DDEEFF" | Henry G. Lamar (J) | Seated December 7, 1829 |- | Maine
4th | Vacant | style="font-size:80%" | Peleg Sprague resigned in previous Congress | style="background-color:#FFE6B0" | George Evans (AJ) | Seated July 20, 1829 |- | Pennsylvania
16th | Vacant | style="font-size:80%" | William Wilkins resigned before qualifying | style="background:#FFFF99" | Harmar Denny (AM) | Seated December 15, 1829 |- | Pennsylvania
8th | style="background-color:#DDEEFF" | George Wolf (J) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned in 1829 before the convening of Congress | style="background-color:#DDEEFF" | Samuel A. Smith (J) | Seated October 13, 1829 |- | Virginia
10th | style="background-color:#DDEEFF" | William C. Rives (J) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned some time in 1829 | style="background-color:#DDEEFF" | William F. Gordon (J) | Seated January 25, 1830 |- | Pennsylvania
8th | style="background-color:#DDEEFF" | Samuel D. Ingham (J) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned in March 1829 after being appointed Secretary of the Treasury | style="background-color:#DDEEFF" | Peter Ihrie, Jr. (J) | Seated October 13, 1829 |- | North Carolina
5th | style="background-color:#DDEEFF" | Gabriel Holmes (J) | style="font-size:80%" | Died September 26, 1829 | style="background-color:#DDEEFF" | Edward B. Dudley (J) | Seated November 10, 1829 |- | New York
20th | style="background-color:#FFE6B0" | George Fisher (AJ) | style="font-size:80%" | Lost contested election February 5, 1830, to Silas Wright who in turn failed to qualify | style="background-color:#DDEEFF" | Jonah Sanford (J) | Seated November 3, 1830 |- | Virginia
1st | style="background-color:#FFE6B0" | Thomas Newton, Jr. (AJ) | style="font-size:80%" | Lost contested election March 9, 1830 | style="background-color:#DDEEFF" | George Loyall (J) | Seated March 9, 1830 |- | Maine
5th | style="background-color:#DDEEFF" | James W. Ripley (J) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned March 12, 1830 | style="background-color:#DDEEFF" | Cornelius Holland (J) | Seated December 6, 1830 |- | Ohio
11th | style="background-color:#DDEEFF" | John M. Goodenow (J) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned April 9, 1830, after being appointed judge of the Supreme Court of Ohio | style="background-color:#DDEEFF" | Humphrey H. Leavitt (J) | Seated December 6, 1830 |- | Virginia
22nd | style="background-color:#DDEEFF" | Alexander Smyth (J) | style="font-size:80%" | Died April 17, 1830 | style="background-color:#DDEEFF" | Joseph Draper (J) | Seated December 6, 1830 |- | New York
6th | style="background-color:#DDEEFF" | Hector Craig (J) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned July 12, 1830 | style="background-color:#FFE6B0" | Samuel W. Eager (AJ) | Seated November 2, 1830 |- | Virginia
11th | style="background-color:#DDEEFF" | Philip P. Barbour (J) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned October 15, 1830, after being appointed judge of US Circuit Court of the Eastern District of Virginia | style="background-color:#DDEEFF" | John M. Patton (J) | Seated November 25, 1830 |- | New York
21st | style="background-color:#DDEEFF" | Robert Monell (J) | style="font-size:80%" |Resigned February 21, 1831 | Vacant | Not filled this term |- | Michigan Territory
At-large | John Biddle | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned February 21, 1831 | Vacant | Not filled this term |}

Committees

Lists of committees and their party leaders.

Senate

• Accounts of James Monroe (Select)
• Agriculture (Chairman: William Marks)
• Amending the Constitution on the Election of the President and Vice President (Select)
• Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate (Chairman: Elias Kane then James Iredell)
• Claims (Chairman: Benjamin Ruggles)
• Commerce (Chairman: Levi Woodbury)
• Distributing Public Revenue Among the States (Select)
• District of Columbia (Chairman: Ezekiel F. Chambers)
• Dueling (Select)
• Engrossed Bills (Chairman: William Marks)
• Finance (Chairman: Samuel Smith)
• Foreign Relations (Chairman: Littleton Tazewell)
• French Spoilations (Select)
• Impeachment of James H. Peck (Select)
• Indian Affairs (Chairman: Hugh Lawson White)
• Judiciary (Chairman: John Rowan)
• Manufactures (Chairman: Mahlon Dickerson)
• Memorial of the Manufacturers Iron (Select)
• Mileage of Members of Congress (Select)
• Military Affairs (Chairman: Thomas Hart Benton)
• Militia (Chairman: Isaac D. Barnard)
• Naval Affairs (Chairman: Robert Y. Hayne)
• Nomination of Amos Kendall (Select)
• Pensions (Chairman: John Holmes)
• Post Office Department (Select)
• Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: George M. Bibb)
• Private Land Claims (Chairman: Jacob Burnet)
• Public Lands (Chairman: David Barton)
• Roads and Canals (Select) (Chairman: William Hendricks)
• Tariff Regulation (Select)
• Whole

House of Representatives

• Accounts (Chairman: Jehiel H. Halsey)
• Agriculture (Chairman: Ambrose Spencer)
• American Colonization Society (Select)
• Claims (Chairman: Elisha Whittlesey)
• Commerce (Chairman: Churchill C. Cambreleng)
• District of Columbia (Chairman: Gershom Powers)
• Elections (Chairman: Willis Alston)
• Establishing an Assay Office in the Gold Region (Select)
• Expenditures in the Navy Department (Chairman: Augustine H. Shepperd)
• Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Chairman: Joel Yancey)
• Expenditures in the State Department (Chairman: Jonas Earll)
• Expenditures in the Treasury Department (Chairman: George G. Leiper)
• Expenditures in the War Department (Chairman: Lewis Maxwell)
• Expenditures on Public Buildings (Chairman: Michael C. Sprigg)
• Foreign Affairs (Chairman: William S. Archer)
• Indian Affairs (Chairman: John Bell)
• Judiciary (Chairman: James Buchanan)
• Manufactures (Chairman: Rollin C. Mallary)
• Military Affairs (Chairman: William Drayton)
• Military Pensions (Chairman: Isaac C. Bates)
• Naval Affairs (Chairman: Michael Hoffman)
• Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: Richard M. Johnson)
• Private Land Claims (Chairman: Ralph R. Gurley)
• Public Expenditures (Chairman: Thomas H. Hall)
• Public Lands (Chairman: Jacob C. Isacks then Charles A. Wickliffe)
• Revisal and Unfinished Business (Chairman: Dutee J. Pearce)
• Revolutionary Claims (Chairman: Tristam Burges)
• Revolutionary Pensions (Chairman: N/A)
• Rules (Select)
• Standards of Official Conduct
• Territories (Chairman: James Clark)
• Ways and Means (Chairman: George McDuffie)
• Whole

Joint committees

• Enrolled Bills
• The Library

Employees

Legislative branch agency directors

• Architect of the Capitol: Charles Bulfinch, until June 25, 1829 (office abolished)
• Librarian of Congress: John Silva Meehan

Senate

• Chaplain: William Ryland (Methodist), until December 14, 1829
  • Henry V. Johns (Episcopalian), elected December 14, 1829
• Secretary: Walter Lowrie
• Sergeant at Arms: Mountjoy Bayly

House of Representatives

• Chaplain: Reuben Post (Presbyterian), until December 13, 1830
  • Ralph R. Gurley (Presbyterian), elected December 13, 1830
• Clerk: Matthew St. Clair Clarke
• Doorkeeper: Benjamin Birch
• Reading Clerks: [data missing]
• Sergeant at Arms: John O. Dunn

See also

• 1828 United States elections (elections leading to this Congress)
  • 1828 United States presidential election
  • 1828 and 1829 United States Senate elections
  • 1828 and 1829 United States House of Representatives elections
• 1830 United States elections (elections during this Congress, leading to the next Congress)
  • 1830 and 1831 United States Senate elections
  • 1830 and 1831 United States House of Representatives elections

References

• Martis, Kenneth C. (1989). The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
• Martis, Kenneth C. (1982). The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

External links

From American Memory at the Library of Congress:

• Statutes at Large, 1789-1875
• Senate Journal, First Forty-three Sessions of Congress
• House Journal, First Forty-three Sessions of Congress
• Congressional Directory for the 21st Congress, 1st Session.

Other U.S. government websites:

• House Document No. 108-222 from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (1774–2005)
• House History from the U.S. House of Representatives
• Statistics and Lists from the U.S. Senate