27th United States Congress

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27th United States Congress
26th ← → 28th
United States Capitol (1846)
March 4, 1841 – March 4, 1843
Members	52 senators 242 representatives 3 non-voting delegates
Senate majority	Whig
Senate President	John Tyler (W) until April 4, 1841 Vacant from April 4, 1841
House majority	Whig
House Speaker	John White (W)
Sessions
Special: March 4, 1841 – March 15, 1841 1st: May 31, 1841 – September 13, 1841 2nd: December 6, 1841 – August 31, 1842 3rd: December 5, 1842 – March 3, 1843 (lame duck)

The Twenty-seventh 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. between March 4, 1841, and March 4, 1843, during the one-month administration of U.S. President William Henry Harrison and the first two years of the presidency of his successor, John Tyler. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the Fifth Census of the United States in 1830. Both chambers had a Whig majority.

Major events

Main articles: 1841 in the United States, 1842 in the United States, and 1843 in the United States

• March 4, 1841: William Henry Harrison was inaugurated as President of the United States
• April 4, 1841: President Harrison died and Vice President John Tyler became President
• August 16, 1841: President Tyler's veto of a bill to re-establish the Second Bank of the United States led Whig Party members to riot outside the White House in the most violent demonstration on White House grounds in U.S. history.
• May 19, 1842: Dorr Rebellion
• December 17th, 1842: Samuel W. Trotti of South Carolina, became the first Italian American to serve in Congress.

Major legislation

Main article: Major legislation: 27th United States Congress

• April 19, 1841: Bankruptcy Act of 1841, ch. 9, 5 Stat. 440
• September 4, 1841: Preemption Act of 1841, ch. 16, 5 Stat. 453
• August 4, 1842: Armed Occupation Act, 5 Stat. 502
• August 30, 1842: Tariff of 1842 ("Black Tariff"), ch. 270, 5 Stat. 548

Treaties

• August 9, 1842: Webster-Ashburton Treaty signed, establishing the United States–Canada border east of the Rocky Mountains.

Party summary

Senate

	Party (shading shows control)		Total	Vacant
	Democratic (D)	Whig (W)
End of previous congress	30	20	50	0
Begin	22	29	51	1
End	20		49	3
Final voting share	40.8%	59.2%
Beginning of next congress	22	26	48	4

House of Representatives

	Party (shading shows control)				Total	Vacant
	Democratic (D)	Independent Democratic (ID)	Whig (W)	Other
End of previous congress	124	0	111	2	237	0
Begin	98	1	142	0	241	1
End	101		139
Final voting share	41.9%	0.4%	57.7%	0.0%
Beginning of next congress	147	1	72	3	223	0

Leadership

President of the Senate
John Tyler

Senate

• President: John Tyler (W), until April 4, 1841, thereafter vacant
• Presidents pro tempore: William R. King (D), elected March 4, 1841
  • Samuel L. Southard) (W), elected March 11, 1841
  • Willie P. Mangum (W), elected May 31, 1842

House of Representatives

• Speaker: John D. White (W)

Members

This list is arranged by chamber, then by state. Senators are listed in order of seniority, 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, requiring re-election in 1844; Class 2 meant their term began with this Congress, requiring re-election in 1846; and Class 3 meant their term ended with this Congress, requiring re-election in 1842.

Alabama

• 2. William R. King (D)
• 3. Clement C. Clay (D), until November 15, 1841
  • Arthur P. Bagby (D), from November 24, 1841

Arkansas

• 2. William Fulton (D)
• 3. Ambrose Sevier (D)

Connecticut

• 1. Jabez W. Huntington (W)
• 3. Perry Smith (D)

Delaware

• 1. Richard H. Bayard (W)
• 2. Thomas Clayton (W)

Georgia

• 2. John Berrien (W)
• 3. Alfred Cuthbert (D)

Illinois

• 2. Samuel McRoberts (D)
• 3. Richard M. Young (D)

Indiana

• 1. Albert White (W)
• 3. Oliver H. Smith (W)

Kentucky

• 2. James T. Morehead (W)
• 3. Henry Clay (W), until March 31, 1842
  • John J. Crittenden (W), from March 31, 1842

Louisiana

• 2. Alexander Barrow (W)
• 3. Alexander Mouton (D), until March 1, 1842
  • Charles Conrad (W), from April 14, 1842

Maine

• 1. Reuel Williams (D), until February 15, 1843
• 2. George Evans (W)

Maryland

• 1. William Merrick (W)
• 3. John L. Kerr (W)

Massachusetts

• 1. Rufus Choate (W)
• 2. Isaac C. Bates (W)

Michigan

• 1. Augustus S. Porter (W)
• 2. William Woodbridge (W)

Mississippi

• 1. John Henderson (W)
• 2. Robert J. Walker (D)

Missouri

• 1. Thomas Benton (D)
• 3. Lewis F. Linn (D)

New Hampshire

• 2. Levi Woodbury (D)
• 3. Franklin Pierce (D), until February 28, 1842
  • Leonard Wilcox (D), from March 1, 1842

New Jersey

• 1. Samuel L. Southard (W), until June 26, 1842
  • William L. Dayton (W), from July 2, 1842
• 2. Jacob W. Miller (W)

New York

• 1. Nathaniel P. Tallmadge (W)
• 3. Silas Wright (D)

North Carolina

• 2. Willie Mangum (W)
• 3. William Graham (W)

Ohio

• 1. Benjamin Tappan (D)
• 3. William Allen (D)

Pennsylvania

• 1. Daniel Sturgeon (D)
• 3. James Buchanan (D)

Rhode Island

• 1. Nathan Dixon (W), until January 29, 1842
  • William Sprague (W), from February 18, 1842
• 2. James F. Simmons (W)

South Carolina

• 2. John C. Calhoun (D)
• 3. William C. Preston (W), until November 29, 1842
  • George McDuffie (D), from December 23, 1842

Tennessee

• 1. Alfred O. P. Nicholson (D), until February 7, 1842
• 2. vacant

Vermont

• 1. Samuel S. Phelps (W)
• 3. Samuel Prentiss (W), until April 11, 1842
  • Samuel C. Crafts (W), from April 23, 1842

Virginia

• 1. William C. Rives (W)
• 2. William S. Archer (W)

President pro tempore, 1841
William R. King

President pro tempore, 1841-42
Samuel L. Southard

President pro tempore, 1842-43
Willie Person Mangum

House of Representatives

Alabama

All representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket.

• At-large. Reuben Chapman (D)
• At-large. George S. Houston (D)
• At-large. Dixon H. Lewis (D)
• At-large. William W. Payne (D)
• At-large. Benjamin Shields (D)

Arkansas

• At-large. Edward Cross (D)

Connecticut

• 1. Joseph Trumbull (W)
• 2. William Boardman (W)
• 3. Thomas W. Williams (W)
• 4. Thomas B. Osborne (W)
• 5. Truman Smith (W)
• 6. John H. Brockway (W)

Delaware

• At-large. George B. Rodney (W)

Georgia

All representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket.

• At-large. Julius C. Alford (W), until October 1, 1841
  • Edward Black (D), from January 3, 1842
• At-large. William Dawson (W), until November 13, 1841
  • Walter T. Colquitt (D), from January 3, 1842
• At-large. Thomas Foster (W)
• At-large. Roger Gamble (W)
• At-large. Richard W. Habersham (W), until December 2, 1842
  • George W. Crawford (W), from January 7, 1843
• At-large. Thomas Butler King (W)
• At-large. James Meriwether (W)
• At-large. Eugenius Nisbet (W), until October 12, 1841
  • Mark Cooper (D), from January 3, 1842
• At-large. Lott Warren (W)

Illinois

• 1. John Reynolds (D)
• 2. Zadok Casey (Independent D)
• 3. John T. Stuart (W)

Indiana

• 1. George H. Proffit (W)
• 2. Richard W. Thompson (W)
• 3. Joseph L. White (W)
• 4. James H. Cravens (W)
• 5. Andrew Kennedy (D)
• 6. David Wallace (W)
• 7. Henry S. Lane (W)

Kentucky

• 1. Linn Boyd (D)
• 2. Philip Triplett (W)
• 3. Joseph R. Underwood (W)
• 4. Bryan Owsley (W)
• 5. John Thompson (W)
• 6. Willis Green (W)
• 7. John Pope (W)
• 8. James Sprigg (W)
• 9. John White (W)
• 10. Thomas F. Marshall (W)
• 11. Landaff Andrews (W)
• 12. Garrett Davis (W)
• 13. William Butler (D)

Louisiana

• 1. Edward White (W)
• 2. John Dawson (D)
• 3. John Moore (W)

Maine

• 1. Nathan Clifford (D)
• 2. William P. Fessenden (W)
• 3. Benjamin Randall (W)
• 4. David Bronson (W), from May 31, 1841
• 5. Nathaniel Littlefield (D)
• 6. Alfred Marshall (D)
• 7. Joshua A. Lowell (D)
• 8. Elisha Allen (W)

Maryland

The 4th district was a plural district with two representatives.

• 1. Isaac Jones (W)
• 2. James Pearce (W)
• 3. James W. Williams (D), until December 2, 1842
  • Charles S. Sewall (D), from January 2, 1843
• 4. John P. Kennedy (W)
• 4. Alexander Randall (W)
• 5. William Cost Johnson (W)
• 6. John Mason (D)
• 7. Augustus Sollers (W)

Massachusetts

• 1. Robert Winthrop (W), until May 25, 1842
  • Nathan Appleton (W), from June 9, 1842, until September 28, 1842
  • Robert Winthrop (W), from November 29, 1842
• 2. Leverett Saltonstall (W)
• 3. Caleb Cushing (W)
• 4. William Parmenter (D)
• 5. Levi Lincoln, Jr. (W), until March 16, 1841
  • Charles Hudson (W), from May 3, 1841
• 6. Osmyn Baker (W)
• 7. George N. Briggs (W)
• 8. William B. Calhoun (W)
• 9. William S. Hastings (W), until June 17, 1842
• 10. Nathaniel B. Borden (W)
• 11. Barker Burnell (W)
• 12. John Quincy Adams (W)

Michigan

• At-large. Jacob M. Howard (W)

Mississippi

All representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket.

• At-large. William M. Gwin (D)
• At-large. Jacob Thompson (D)

Missouri

All representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket.

• At-large. John C. Edwards (D)
• At-large. John Miller (D)

New Hampshire

All representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket.

• At-large. Charles G. Atherton (D)
• At-large. Edmund Burke (D)
• At-large. Ira A. Eastman (D)
• At-large. John R. Reding (D)
• At-large. Tristram Shaw (D)

New Jersey

All representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket.

• At-large. John B. Aycrigg (W)
• At-large. William Halstead (W)
• At-large. John P. B. Maxwell (W)
• At-large. Joseph F. Randolph (W)
• At-large. Charles C. Stratton (W)
• At-large. Thomas J. Yorke (W)

New York

There were four plural districts, the 8th, 17th, 22nd & 23rd had two representatives each, the 3rd had four representatives.

• 1. Charles A. Floyd (D)
• 2. Joseph Egbert (D)
• 3. Charles G. Ferris (D)
• 3. John McKeon (D)
• 3. James I. Roosevelt (D)
• 3. Fernando Wood (D)
• 4. Aaron Ward (D)
• 5. Richard D. Davis (D)
• 6. James G. Clinton (D)
• 7. John Van Buren (D)
• 8. Jacob Houck, Jr. (D)
• 8. Robert McClellan (D)
• 9. Hiram P. Hunt (W)
• 10. Daniel D. Barnard (W)
• 11. Archibald L. Linn (W)
• 12. Bernard Blair (W)
• 13. Thomas A. Tomlinson (W)
• 14. Henry Bell Van Rensselaer (W)
• 15. John Sanford (D)
• 16. Andrew W. Doig (D)
• 17. David P. Brewster (D)
• 17. John G. Floyd (D)
• 18. Thomas C. Chittenden (W)
• 19. Samuel S. Bowne (D)
• 20. Samuel Gordon (D)
• 21. John C. Clark (W)
• 22. Samuel Partridge (D)
• 22. Lewis Riggs (D)
• 23. Victory Birdseye (W)
• 23. A. Lawrence Foster (W)
• 24. Christopher Morgan (W)
• 25. John Maynard (W)
• 26. Francis Granger (W), until March 5, 1841
  • John Greig (W), from May 21, 1841, until September 25, 1841
  • Francis Granger (W), from November 27, 1841
• 27. William M. Oliver (D)
• 28. Timothy Childs (W)
• 29. Seth M. Gates (W)
• 30. John Young (W)
• 31. Staley N. Clarke (W)
• 32. Millard Fillmore (W)
• 33. Alfred Babcock (W)

North Carolina

• 1. Kenneth Rayner (W)
• 2. John Daniel (D)
• 3. Edward Stanly (W)
• 4. William Washington (W)
• 5. James McKay (D)
• 6. Archibald H. Arrington (D)
• 7. Edmund Deberry (W)
• 8. Romulus Saunders (D)
• 9. Augustine Shepperd (W)
• 10. Abraham Rencher (W)
• 11. Greene Caldwell (D)
• 12. James Graham (W)
• 13. Lewis Williams (W), until February 23, 1842
  • Anderson Mitchell (W), from April 27, 1842

Ohio

• 1. Nathanael G. Pendleton (W)
• 2. John B. Weller (D)
• 3. Patrick Goode (W)
• 4. Jeremiah Morrow (W)
• 5. William Doan (D)
• 6. Calvary Morris (W)
• 7. William Russell (W)
• 8. Joseph Ridgway (W)
• 9. William Medill (D)
• 10. Samson Mason (W)
• 11. Benjamin S. Cowen (W)
• 12. Joshua Mathiot (W)
• 13. James Mathews (D)
• 14. George Sweeny (D)
• 15. Sherlock Andrews (W)
• 16. Joshua Giddings (W), until March 22, 1842, and from December 5, 1842
• 17. John Hastings (D)
• 18. Ezra Dean (D)
• 19. Samuel Stokely (W)

Pennsylvania

There were two plural districts, the 2nd had two representatives, the 4th had three representatives.

• 1. Charles Brown (D)
• 2. George Toland (W)
• 2. John Sergeant (W), until September 15, 1841
  • Joseph R. Ingersoll (W), from October 12, 1841
• 3. Charles Ingersoll (D)
• 4. Jeremiah Brown (W)
• 4. John Edwards (W)
• 4. Francis James (W)
• 5. Joseph Fornance (D)
• 6. Robert Ramsey (W)
• 7. John Westbrook (D)
• 8. Peter Newhard (D)
• 9. George Keim (D)
• 10. William Simonton (W)
• 11. James Gerry (D)
• 12. James Cooper (W)
• 13. Amos Gustine (D)
• 14. James Irvin (W)
• 15. Benjamin Bidlack (D)
• 16. John Snyder (D)
• 17. Davis Dimock, Jr. (D), until January 13, 1842
  • Almon Read (D), from March 18, 1842
• 18. Charles Ogle (W), until May 10, 1841
  • Henry Black (W), from June 28, 1841, until November 28, 1841
  • James M. Russell (W), from December 21, 1841
• 19. Albert G. Marchand (D)
• 20. Enos Hook (D), until April 18, 1841
  • Henry W. Beeson (D), from May 31, 1841
• 21. Joseph Lawrence (W), until April 17, 1842
  • Thomas M. T. McKennan (W), from May 30, 1842
• 22. William W. Irwin (W)
• 23. William Jack (D)
• 24. Thomas Henry (W)
• 25. Arnold Plumer (D)

Rhode Island

Both representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket.

• At-large. Robert B. Cranston (W)
• At-large. Joseph L. Tillinghast (W)

South Carolina

• 1. Isaac E. Holmes (D)
• 2. Robert Rhett (D)
• 3. John Campbell (D)
• 4. Sampson H. Butler (D), until September 27, 1842
  • Samuel W. Trotti (D), from December 17, 1842
• 5. Francis Pickens (D)
• 6. William Butler (W)
• 7. James Rogers (D)
• 8. Thomas D. Sumter (D)
• 9. Patrick C. Caldwell (D)

Tennessee

• 1. Thomas Arnold (W)
• 2. Abraham McClellan (D)
• 3. Joseph Williams (W)
• 4. Thomas Campbell (W)
• 5. Hopkins L. Turney (D)
• 6. William B. Campbell (W)
• 7. Robert L. Caruthers (W)
• 8. Meredith Gentry (W)
• 9. Harvey M. Watterson (D)
• 10. Aaron V. Brown (D)
• 11. Cave Johnson (D)
• 12. Milton Brown (W)
• 13. Christopher Williams (W)

Vermont

• 1. Hiland Hall (W)
• 2. William Slade (W)
• 3. Horace Everett (W)
• 4. Augustus Young (W)
• 5. John Mattocks (W)

Virginia

• 1. Francis Mallory (W)
• 2. George B. Cary (D)
• 3. John Jones (D)
• 4. William Goode (D)
• 5. Edmund W. Hubard (D)
• 6. Walter Coles (D)
• 7. William L. Goggin (W)
• 8. Henry A. Wise (W)
• 9. Robert M. T. Hunter (Whig)
• 10. John Taliaferro (W)
• 11. John Botts (W)
• 12. Thomas Gilmer (W)
• 13. Linn Banks (D), until December 6, 1841
  • William Smith (D), from December 6, 1841
• 14. Cuthbert Powell (W)
• 15. Richard W. Barton (W)
• 16. William Harris (D)
• 17. Alexander Stuart (W)
• 18. George Hopkins (D)
• 19. George W. Summers (W)
• 20. Samuel Hays (D)
• 21. Lewis Steenrod (D)

Non-voting members

• Florida Territory. David Levy Yulee (D)
• Iowa Territory. Augustus C. Dodge (D)
• Wisconsin Territory. Henry Dodge (D)

House seats by party holding plurality in state
80+% to 100% Democratic	Up to 60% Whig
60+% to 80% Democratic	60+% to 80% Whig
Up to 60% Democratic	80+% to 100% Whig

Speaker of the House
John White

Changes in membership

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

Senate

• replacements: 9
  • Democrats: no net change
  • Whigs: no net change
• deaths: 2
• resignations: 8
• interim appointments: 0
• vacancy: 1
• Total seats with changes: 10

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

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(1) | style="background-color:#F0C862" | Nathan F. Dixon (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Died January 29, 1842 | style="background-color:#F0C862" | William Sprague (W) | Elected February 18, 1842 |- | Tennessee
(1) | style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF" | Alfred O. P. Nicholson (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned February 7, 1842 | Vacant | Not filled this term |- | New Hampshire
(3) | style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF" | Franklin Pierce (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned February 28, 1842 | style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF" | Leonard Wilcox (D) | Appointed March 1, 1842, and subsequently elected |- | Louisiana
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(3) | style="background-color:#F0C862" | Henry Clay (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned March 31, 1842 | style="background-color:#F0C862" | John J. Crittenden (W) | Appointed March 31, 1842, and subsequently elected |- | Vermont
(3) | style="background-color:#F0C862" | Samuel Prentiss (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned April 11, 1842, to become judge of the U.S. District Court of Vermont | style="background-color:#F0C862" | Samuel C. Crafts (W) | Appointed April 23, 1842, and subsequently elected |- | New Jersey
(1) | style="background-color:#F0C862" | Samuel L. Southard (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Died June 26, 1842 | style="background-color:#F0C862" | William L. Dayton (W) | Appointed July 2, 1842 |- | South Carolina
(3) | style="background-color:#F0C862" | William C. Preston (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned November 29, 1842 | style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF" | George McDuffie (D) | Elected December 23, 1842 |- | Maine
(1) | style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF" | Reuel Williams (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned February 15, 1843 | Vacant | Not filled this term |}

House of Representatives

• replacements: 17
  • Democrats: 3 seat net gain
  • Whigs: 3 seat net loss
• deaths: 8
• resignations: 12
• contested election: 1
• Total seats with changes: 20

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

Template:Ordinal US Congress Rep |- | Maine 4th | Vacant | style="font-size:80%" | Rep. George Evans resigned in previous congress | style="background-color:#F0C862" | David Bronson (W) | Seated May 31, 1841 |- | New York 26th | style="background-color:#F0C862" | Francis Granger (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned March 5, 1841, after being appointed United States Postmaster General | style="background-color:#F0C862" | John Greig (W) | Seated May 21, 1841 |- | Massachusetts 5th | style="background-color:#F0C862" | Levi Lincoln, Jr. (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned March 16, 1841, after being appointed Collector of the port of Boston | style="background-color:#F0C862" | Charles Hudson (W) | Seated May 3, 1841 |- | Pennsylvania 20th | style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF" | Enos Hook (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned April 18, 1841 | style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF" | Henry W. Beeson (D) | Seated May 31, 1841 |- | Pennsylvania 18th | style="background-color:#F0C862" | Charles Ogle (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Died May 10, 1841 | style="background-color:#F0C862" | Henry Black (W) | Seated June 28, 1841 |- | Pennsylvania 2nd | style="background-color:#F0C862" | John Sergeant (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned September 15, 1841 | style="background-color:#F0C862" | Joseph R. Ingersoll (W) | Seated October 12, 1841 |- | New York 26th | style="background-color:#F0C862" | John Greig (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned September 25, 1841 | style="background-color:#F0C862" | Francis Granger (W) | Seated November 27, 1841 |- | Georgia At-large | style="background-color:#F0C862" | Julius C. Alford (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned October 1, 1841 | style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF" | Edward J. Black (D) | Seated January 3, 1842 |- | Georgia At-large | style="background-color:#F0C862" | Eugenius A. Nisbet (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned October 12, 1841 | style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF" | Mark A. Cooper (D) | Seated January 3, 1842 |- | Georgia At-large | style="background-color:#F0C862" | William C. Dawson (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned November 13, 1841 | style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF" | Walter T. Colquitt (D) | Seated January 3, 1842 |- | Pennsylvania 18th | style="background-color:#F0C862" | Henry Black (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Died November 28, 1841 | style="background-color:#F0C862" | James M. Russell (W) | Seated December 21, 1841 |- | Virginia 13th | style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF" | Linn Banks (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Lost contested election December 6, 1841 | style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF" | William Smith (D) | Seated December 6, 1841 |- | Pennsylvania 17th | style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF" | Davis Dimock, Jr. (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Died January 13, 1842 | style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF" | Almon H. Read (D) | Seated March 18, 1842 |- | North Carolina 13th | style="background-color:#F0C862" | Lewis Williams (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Died February 23, 1842 | style="background-color:#F0C862" | Anderson Mitchell (W) | Seated April 27, 1842 |- | Ohio 16th | style="background-color:#F0C862" | Joshua R. Giddings (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned March 22, 1842, after vote of his censure and re-elected to same seat | style="background-color:#F0C862" | Joshua R. Giddings (W) | Seated December 5, 1842 |- | Pennsylvania 21st | style="background-color:#F0C862" | Joseph Lawrence (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Died April 17, 1842 | style="background-color:#F0C862" | Thomas M. T. McKennan (W) | Seated May 30, 1842 |- | Massachusetts 1st | style="background-color:#F0C862" | Robert C. Winthrop (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned May 25, 1842 | style="background-color:#F0C862" | Nathan Appleton (W) | Seated June 9, 1842 |- | Massachusetts 9th | style="background-color:#F0C862" | William S. Hastings (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Died June 17, 1842 | Vacant | Not filled this Congress |- | South Carolina 4th | style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF" | Sampson H. Butler (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned September 27, 1842 | style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF" | Samuel W. Trotti (D) | Seated December 17, 1842 |- | Massachusetts 1st | style="background-color:#F0C862" | Nathan Appleton (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned September 28, 1842 | style="background-color:#F0C862" | Robert C. Winthrop (W) | Seated November 29, 1842 |- | Georgia At-large | style="background-color:#F0C862" | Richard W. Habersham (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Died December 2, 1842 | style="background-color:#F0C862" | George W. Crawford (W) | Seated January 7, 1843 |- | Maryland 3rd | style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF" | James W. Williams (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Died December 2, 1842 | style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF" | Charles S. Sewall (D) | Seated January 2, 1843 |}

Committees

Lists of committees and their party leaders.

Senate

• Agriculture (Chairman: Lewis F. Linn)
• Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate (Chairman: Albert S. White then Benjamin Tappan)
• Claims (Chairman: William A. Graham)
• Commerce (Chairman: Jabez Huntington)
• Distributing Public Revenue Among the States (Select)
• District of Columbia (Chairman: Richard H. Bayard)
• Finance (Chairman: Clement C. Clay)
• Fiscal Corporation of the United States (Select)
• Foreign Relations (Chairman: William C. Rives then William S. Archer)
• Indian Affairs (Chairman: James T. Morehead then Albert White)
• Judiciary (Chairman: John M. Berrien)
• Manufactures (Chairman: George Evans)
• Military Affairs (Chairman: William C. Preston then John J. Crittenden)
• Militia (Chairman: Samuel S. Phelps)
• Naval Affairs (Chairman: Willie P. Mangum)
• Patents and the Patent Office (Chairman: Samuel Prentiss then John Leeds Kerr then Samuel S. Phelps)
• Pensions (Chairman: Isaac C. Bates)
• Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: John Henderson)
• Printing (Chairman: N/A)
• Private Land Claims (Chairman: Richard H. Bayard)
• Public Buildings and Grounds (Chairman: Alexander Barrow)
• Public Lands (Chairman: Oliver H. Smith)
• Revolutionary Claims (Chairman: Nathan F. Dixon)
• Roads and Canals (Chairman: Augustus S. Porter)
• Tariff Regulation (Select)
• Whole

House of Representatives

• Accounts (Chairman: Osmyn Baker)
• Agriculture (Chairman: Edmund Deberry)
• Apportionment of Representatives (Select)
• Claims (Chairman: Joshua Giddings)
• Commerce (Chairman: John P. Kennedy)
• District of Columbia (Chairman: Joseph R. Underwood)
• Elections (Chairman: William Halstead)
• Expenditures in the Navy Department (Chairman: James Iver McKay)
• Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Chairman: Joshua A. Lowell)
• Expenditures in the State Department (Chairman: John Van Buren)
• Expenditures in the Treasury Department (Chairman: A. Lawrence Foster)
• Expenditures in the War Department (Chairman: James Iver McKay)
• Expenditures on Public Buildings (Chairman: Cave Johnson)
• Foreign Affairs (Chairman: Caleb Cushing then John Quincy Adams)
• Indian Affairs (Chairman: John Quincy Adams)
• Invalid Pensions (Chairman: Calvary Morris)
• Judiciary (Chairman: Daniel D. Barnard)
• Manufactures (Chairman: Leverett Saltonstall I)
• Memorial of the Agricultural Bank of Mississippi (Select)
• Mileage (Chairman: Thomas W. Williams)
• Military Affairs (Chairman: William C. Dawson)
• Militia (Chairman: George May Keim)
• Naval Affairs (Chairman: Henry A. Wise)
• Patents (Chairman: Thomas B. Osborne)
• Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: George N. Briggs)
• Private Land Claims (Chairman: John Moore)
• Public Buildings and Grounds (Chairman: William W. Boardman)
• Public Expenditures (Chairman: James Graham)
• Public Lands (Chairman: William C. Johnson then Jeremiah Morrow then Reuben Chapman then Jeremiah Morrow)
• Revisal and Unfinished Business (Chairman: Francis James)
• Revolutionary Claims (Chairman: Hiland Hall)
• Revolutionary Pensions (Chairman: John Taliaferro)
• Roads and Canals (Chairman: Joseph Lawrence)
• Rules (Select)
• Standards of Official Conduct
• Territories (Chairman: Garrett Davis)
• Ways and Means (Chairman: Millard Fillmore)
• Whole

Joint committees

• Enrolled Bills (Chairman: Sen. Augustus Porter then Sen. William Sprague)
• The Library (Chairman: N/A)

Employees

• Librarian of Congress: John Silva Meehan

Senate

• Secretary: Asbury Dickins
• Sergeant at Arms: Stephen Haight, until March 8, 1841
  • Edward Dyer, elected March 8, 1841
• Chaplain: George G. Cookman, Methodist, until June 12, 1841
  • Septimus Tustin, Presbyterian, elected June 12, 1841

House of Representatives

• Clerk: Hugh A. Garland, until May 31, 1841
  • Matthew St. Clair Clarke, elected May 31, 1841
• Sergeant at Arms: Roderick Dorsey, until June 8, 1841
  • Eleazor M. Townsend, elected June 8, 1841
• Doorkeeper: Joseph Follansbee
• Postmaster: William J. McCormick
• Chaplain: John W. French, Episcopalian, elected May 31, 1841
  • John N. Maffit, Methodist, elected December 6, 1841
  • Frederick T. Tiffany, Episcopalian, elected December 5, 1842
• Reading Clerks: [data missing]

See also

• 1840 United States elections (elections leading to this Congress)
  • 1840 United States presidential election
  • 1840 and 1841 United States Senate elections
  • 1840 and 1841 United States House of Representatives elections
• 1842 United States elections (elections during this Congress, leading to the next Congress)
  • 1842 and 1843 United States Senate elections
  • 1842 and 1843 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

• 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 U.S. Congress
• U.S. House of Representatives: House History
• U.S. Senate: Statistics and Lists
• Congressional Directory for the 27th Congress, 1st Session.