14th United States Congress
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Senate

  • President: Vacant
  • President pro tempore
    President pro tempore of the United States Senate
    The President pro tempore is the second-highest-ranking official of the United States Senate. The United States Constitution states that the Vice President of the United States is the President of the Senate and the highest-ranking official of the Senate despite not being a member of the body...

    : John Gaillard
    John Gaillard
    John Gaillard was a U.S. Senator from South Carolina.Gaillard was born in St. Stephen's district, South Carolina on September 5, 1765. He was of Huguenot descent. He was elected to the United States Senate in place of Pierce Butler, who resigned, and served from January 31, 1805 until his death....

     (DR) of South Carolina, first elected December 4, 1815

House of Representatives

  • Speaker
    Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
    The Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, or Speaker of the House, is the presiding officer of the United States House of Representatives...

    : Henry Clay
    Henry Clay
    Henry Clay, Sr. , was a lawyer, politician and skilled orator who represented Kentucky separately in both the Senate and in the House of Representatives...

     (DR) of Kentucky

Members

This list is arranged by chamber, then by state. Senators are listed in order of seniority, and Representatives are listed by district.

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
Classes of United States Senators
The three classes of United States Senators are currently made up of 33 or 34 Senate seats. The purpose of the classes is to determine which Senate seats will be up for election in a given year. The three groups are staggered so that one of them is up for election every two years.A senator's...

, which indicate the cycle of their election. In this Congress, Class 1 meant their term began with this Congress, requiring reelection in 1820; Class 2 meant their term ended with this Congress, requiring reelection in 1816; and Class 3 meant their term began in the last Congress, requiring reelection in 1818.

Connecticut 

  • 1. Samuel W. Dana
    Samuel W. Dana
    Samuel Whittlesey Dana was an American lawyer and politician from Middletown, Connecticut. He represented Connecticut in both the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate....

     (F)
  • 3. David Daggett
    David Daggett
    David Daggett was a U.S. senator, mayor of New Haven, Connecticut, Judge of the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors, and a founder of the Yale Law School.-Life:...

     (F)

Delaware 

  • 1. Outerbridge Horsey
    Outerbridge Horsey
    -Outerbridge Horsey I:Nathanial Horsey married Martha Outerbridge in Accomack, Virginia. Among their children was Outerbridge Horsey who was born in 1715. He married Mary Dixon and had a son William Horsey...

     (F)
  • 2. William H. Wells
    William H. Wells
    William Hill Wells was a lawyer and politician from Dagsboro, in Sussex County, Delaware. He was a member of the Federalist Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly and as U.S. Senator from Delaware....

     (F)

Georgia 

  • 3. Charles Tait
    Charles Tait
    Charles Tait was an American politician. A Democratic Republican, he served as a United States Senator from Georgia and later as a United States federal judge.-Early life:...

     (DR)
  • 2. William W. Bibb
    William Wyatt Bibb
    William Wyatt Bibb was a United States Senator from Georgia and the first Governor of the U.S. state of Alabama. Bibb County, Alabama, and Bibb County, Georgia, are named for him....

     (DR), until November 9, 1816
    • George Troup
      George Troup
      George Michael Troup was an American politician from the U.S. state of Georgia. He served in the Georgia General Assembly, U.S. House of Representatives, and Senate before becoming the 32nd Governor of Georgia for two terms and then returning to the Senate...

       (DR), from November 13, 1816

Indiana 

  • 1. James Noble
    James Noble
    James Noble was the first U.S. Senator from the U.S. state of Indiana.Noble was born near Berryville, Virginia and moved with his parents to Campbell County, Kentucky when he was 10...

     (DR), from December 11, 1816
  • 3. Waller Taylor
    Waller Taylor
    Waller Taylor was an American military commander and politician.-Biography:Taylor was born in Lunenburg County, Virginia where he spent his entire childhood. He studied law and served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1800 to 1802.In 1804 he moved to Vincennes, Indiana and practiced law...

     (DR), from December 11, 1816

Kentucky 

  • 2. William T. Barry
    William T. Barry
    William Taylor Barry was an American statesman and jurist.-History:Born near Lunenburg, Virginia, he moved to Fayette County, Kentucky, in 1796 with his parents John Barry, an American Revolutionary War veteran, and Susannah Barry...

     (DR), until May 1, 1816
    • Martin D. Hardin
      Martin D. Hardin
      Martin Davis Hardin was a United States Senator from Kentucky.-Biography:Born along the Monongahela River in western Pennsylvania, Hardin moved with his parents to Kentucky in 1786. He pursued an academic course, and attended Transylvania Seminary in Lexington, Kentucky...

       (F), from November 13, 1816
  • 3. Isham Talbot
    Isham Talbot
    Isham Talbot was a United States Senator from Kentucky.Born in Bedford County, Virginia, Isham Talbot Junior moved with his parents to Harrodsburg, Kentucky in about 1784. He was admitted to the bar, and began his legal practice in Versailles, Kentucky...

     (DR)

Louisiana 

  • 2. James Brown
    James Brown (Senator)
    James Brown was a lawyer, U.S. Senator from Louisiana and Minister to France. He was the brother of John Brown, the cousin of John Breckinridge, James Breckinridge and Francis Preston, the brother-in-law of Henry Clay, the uncle of James Brown Clay, Henry Clay, Jr., John Morrison Clay, the great...

     (DR)
  • 3. Eligius Fromentin
    Eligius Fromentin
    Eligius Fromentin was an American politician.Fromentin was born and raised in France, where he later became a Roman Catholic priest. Fromentin fled the country during the French Revolution and arrived in the United States. He at first settled in Pennsylvania, but then moved to Maryland, where he...

     (DR)

Maryland 

  • 3. Robert H. Goldsborough
    Robert Henry Goldsborough
    Robert Henry Goldsborough was an American politician from Talbot County, Maryland.Goldsborough was born at "Myrtle Grove" near Easton, Maryland. He was educated by private tutors and graduated from St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland in 1795...

     (F)
  • 1. Robert G. Harper
    Robert Goodloe Harper
    Robert Goodloe Harper , a Federalist, was a member of the United States Senate from Maryland, serving from January 1816 until his resignation in December of the same year. He also served in the South Carolina House of Representatives , the U.S. House of Representatives from South Carolina , and in...

     (F), January 1816 - December 1816
    • Alexander C. Hanson
      Alexander Contee Hanson
      Alexander Contee Hanson was an American lawyer, publisher, and statesman. He represented the third district of Maryland in the U.S. House, and the state of Maryland in the U.S. Senate....

       (F), from December 20, 1816

Massachusetts 

  • 2. Joseph Bradley Varnum
    Joseph Bradley Varnum
    Joseph Bradley Varnum was a U.S. politician of the Democratic-Republican Party from Massachusetts.-Biography:...

     (DR)
  • 1. Christopher Gore
    Christopher Gore
    Christopher Gore was a prominent Massachusetts lawyer, Federalist politician, and diplomat.-Biography:Gore was born in Boston in 1758, the tenth of thirteen children of Frances and John Gore, a successful merchant and artisan...

     (F), until May 30, 1816
    • Eli P. Ashmun
      Eli P. Ashmun
      Eli Porter Ashmun was a Federalist United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1816 to 1818.Born in a small village north of Albany, New York on the Hudson River, he attended the local school and attended Middlebury College, graduating in 1807...

       (F), from June 12, 1816

New Hampshire 

  • 3. Jeremiah Mason
    Jeremiah Mason
    Jeremiah Mason was a United States Senator from New Hampshire. Born in Lebanon, Connecticut, son of Jeremiah Mason and wife Elizabeth Fitch , he graduated from Yale College in 1788, studied law, moved to Vermont, and was admitted to the bar in 1791...

     (F)
  • 2. Thomas W. Thompson
    Thomas W. Thompson
    Thomas Weston Thompson was a United States Representative and Senator from New Hampshire. Born in Boston, he attended Dummer Academy in Byfield, Massachusetts and graduated from Harvard University in 1786. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1791, and practiced in Salisbury, New Hampshire...

     (F)

New Jersey 

  • 2. John Condit
    John Condit
    John Condit was a United States Representative and a United States Senator from New Jersey and father of United States Representative Silas Condit....

     (DR)
  • 1. James J. Wilson
    James J. Wilson
    James Jefferson Wilson served New Jersey as a U.S. Senator from 1815 to 1821.-Biography:Wilson was born in Essex County, New Jersey, where he attended the common schools...

     (DR)


New York 

  • 3. Rufus King
    Rufus King
    Rufus King was an American lawyer, politician, and diplomat. He was a delegate for Massachusetts to the Continental Congress. He also attended the Constitutional Convention and was one of the signers of the United States Constitution on September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...

     (F)
  • 1. Nathan Sanford
    Nathan Sanford
    Nathan Sanford was an American politician.- Life :He was the son of Thomas Sanford and Phebe Sanford, née Baker...

     (DR)

North Carolina 

  • 2. James Turner
    James Turner
    James Turner was the 12th Governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1802 to 1805. He later served as a U.S. senator between 1805 and 1816....

     (DR), until November 21, 1816
    • Montfort Stokes
      Montfort Stokes
      Montfort Stokes was an American Democratic politician who served as U.S. Senator from 1816 to 1823, and the 25th Governor of North Carolina from 1830 to 1832....

       (DR), from December 4, 1816
  • 3. Francis Locke
    Francis Locke
    Francis Locke was a U.S. senator from the state of North Carolina. Francis Locke was the son of Francis Locke and Anne Brandon...

     (Party unknown), until December 5, 1815
    • Nathaniel Macon
      Nathaniel Macon
      Nathaniel Macon was a spokesman for the Old Republican faction of the Democratic-Republican Party that wanted to strictly limit the United States federal government. Macon was born near Warrenton, North Carolina, and attended the College of New Jersey and served briefly in the American...

       (DR), from December 13, 1815

Ohio 

  • 3. Jeremiah Morrow
    Jeremiah Morrow
    Jeremiah Morrow was a Democratic-Republican Party politician from Ohio. He served as the ninth Governor of Ohio, and the last Democratic-Republican to do so....

     (DR)
  • 1. Benjamin Ruggles
    Benjamin Ruggles
    Benjamin Ruggles was a National Republican and Whig politician from Ohio. He served in the U.S. Senate.Born in Abington, Windham County, Connecticut, Ruggles moved to Marietta, Ohio to practice law in 1807. He moved to St. Clairsville, Ohio in 1810. He married in Connecticut in 1812. His first...

     (DR)

Pennsylvania 

  • 3. Abner Lacock
    Abner Lacock
    Abner Lacock was an American surveyor, civil engineer, and politician from Rochester, Pennsylvania. He served in both houses in the state legislature and represented Pennsylvania in both the U.S. House and Senate....

     (DR)
  • 1. Jonathan Roberts
    Jonathan Roberts
    Jonathan Roberts was a United States Representative and Senator from Pennsylvania from 1811 to 1814 and 1814 to 1821 respectively.-Life and career:...

     (DR)

Rhode Island 

  • 2. Jeremiah B. Howell
    Jeremiah B. Howell
    Jeremiah Brown Howell was a United States Senator from Rhode Island. Born in Providence, he attended private schools, pursued classical studies and graduated from the College of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations at Providence in 1789...

     (DR)
  • 1. William Hunter (F)

South Carolina 

  • 3. John Gaillard
    John Gaillard
    John Gaillard was a U.S. Senator from South Carolina.Gaillard was born in St. Stephen's district, South Carolina on September 5, 1765. He was of Huguenot descent. He was elected to the United States Senate in place of Pierce Butler, who resigned, and served from January 31, 1805 until his death....

     (DR)
  • 2. John Taylor (DR), until November 1816
    • William Smith
      William Smith (South Carolina senator)
      William Smith was chosen as a Democratic-Republican to the U.S. Senate representing South Carolina in 1816. The legislature declined to re-elect him when his term expired in 1823...

       (DR), from December 4, 1816

Tennessee 

  • 2. Jesse Wharton
    Jesse Wharton
    Jesse Wharton was an attorney who briefly represented Tennessee in each house of Congress.-Biography:Wharton was born in Albemarle County, Virginia and studied law and was admitted to the Virginia bar. Moving to Tennessee, he was elected to the United States House of Representatives from that...

     (DR), until October 10, 1815
    • John Williams
      John Williams (Tennessee)
      John Williams was an American lawyer, soldier, and statesman, operating primarily out of Knoxville, Tennessee, in the first part of the 19th century. He represented Tennessee in the United States Senate from 1815 to 1823, when he lost reelection to Andrew Jackson. Williams also served as colonel...

       (DR), from October 10, 1815
  • 1. George W. Campbell
    George W. Campbell
    George Washington Campbell was an American statesman who served as a U.S. Representative, Senator, Tennessee Supreme Court Justice, U.S...

     (DR), from October 10, 1815

Vermont 

  • 3. Dudley Chase
    Dudley Chase
    Dudley Chase was a United States Senator from Vermont.He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1791, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1793...

     (DR)
  • 1. Isaac Tichenor
    Isaac Tichenor
    Isaac Tichenor was the third and fifth Governor of Vermont and also served as a jurist and a United States Senator.Tichenor was born in Newark, New Jersey...

     (F)

Virginia 

  • 1. James Barbour
    James Barbour
    James Barbour was an American lawyer, amember and speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates, the 18th Governor of Virginia, the first Governor to reside in the current Virginia Governor's Mansion, a U.S. Senator from 1814–1825, and the United States Secretary of War from 1825-1828.Barbour was a...

     (DR)
  • 2. Armistead T. Mason
    Armistead Thomson Mason
    Armistead Thomson Mason , the son of Stevens Thomson Mason, was a U.S. Senator from Virginia from 1816 to 1817.-Early life and education:...

     (DR), from January 3, 1816


Connecticut 

All representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket
General ticket
General ticket representation is a term used to describe a particular method of electing members of a multi-member state delegation to the United States House of Representatives...

.. Epaphroditus Champion
Epaphroditus Champion
Epaphroditus Champion was a U.S. Congressman from Connecticut, serving from 1807 to 1818. He was born in Colchester on April 6, 1756 and educated by private tutors and in the common schools....

 (F). John Davenport
John Davenport (Connecticut)
John Davenport was a United States Representative from Connecticut.-Biography:Born in Stamford, he pursued academic studies, and graduated from Yale College in 1770. He engaged in teaching there in 1773 and 1774; he also studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1773, practicing in Stamford...

 (F). Lyman Law
Lyman Law
Lyman Law , son of Richard Law and father of John Law, was a United States Representative from Connecticut. He was born New London, Connecticut. He pursued classical studies and was graduated from Yale College in 1791...

 (F). Jonathan O. Moseley
Jonathan O. Moseley
Jonathan Ogden Moseley was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Connecticut. He was born in East Haddam, Connecticut, the only child of Thomas Moseley, a physician, and Phebe Ogden...

 (F). Timothy Pitkin
Timothy Pitkin
Timothy Pitkin was an American lawyer, politician, and historian....

 (F). Lewis B. Sturges
Lewis B. Sturges
Lewis Burr Sturges was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Connecticut from 1805 to 1817. He was born in Fairfield, Conn., the son of Jonathan Sturges, who also served in the House....

 (F). Benjamin Tallmadge
Benjamin Tallmadge
Benjamin Tallmadge was a member of the United States House of Representatives. His birth date is alternately listed as February 25, 1754....

 (F)

Delaware 

Both representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket
General ticket
General ticket representation is a term used to describe a particular method of electing members of a multi-member state delegation to the United States House of Representatives...

.. Thomas Clayton
Thomas Clayton
Thomas Clayton was an American lawyer and politician from Dover in Kent County, Delaware. He was a member of the Federalist Party and later the Whig Party. He served in the Delaware General Assembly, as Attorney General of Delaware, as Secretary of State of Delaware, as Chief Justice of the...

 (F). Thomas Cooper
Thomas Cooper (representative)
Thomas Cooper was an American lawyer and politician from Georgetown, in Sussex County, Delaware. He was a member of the Federalist Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly and as U. S. Representative from Delaware....

 (F)

Georgia 

All representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket
General ticket
General ticket representation is a term used to describe a particular method of electing members of a multi-member state delegation to the United States House of Representatives...

.. Alfred Cuthbert
Alfred Cuthbert
Alfred Cuthbert was a United States Representative and Senator from Georgia.-Biography:Cuthbert was born in Savannah, he was instructed by private tutors and graduated from Princeton College in 1803...

 (DR)
    • Zadock Cook
      Zadock Cook
      Zadock Cook was a United States Representative from Georgia.-Biography:He was born in Virginia and moved to Hancock County, Georgia in early life. He was one of the first white settlers in Clarke County, Georgia. He was self-educated...

       (DR). John Forsyth
      John Forsyth (politician)
      John Forsyth, Sr. was a 19th-century American politician from Georgia.Forsyth was born in Fredericksburg, Virginia. His father Robert Forsyth was the first U.S. Marshal to be killed in the line of duty in 1794. He was an attorney who graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1799...

       (DR). Bolling Hall
      Bolling Hall
      Bolling Hall was a United States Representative from Georgia. He was born in Dinwiddie County, Virginia. He served in the American Revolutionary War at the age of 16...

       (DR). Wilson Lumpkin
      Wilson Lumpkin
      Wilson Lumpkin was a governor of Georgia, and a United States Representative and Senator.-Biography:Born near Dan River, Virginia, he moved in 1784 to Oglethorpe County, Georgia with his parents, who settled near Point Peter and subsequently at Lexington, Georgia...

       (DR). Thomas Telfair
      Thomas Telfair
      Thomas Telfair was a United States Representative from Georgia. Born in Savannah, Georgia, he graduated from Princeton College in 1805. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Savannah....

       (DR). Richard Henry Wilde
      Richard Henry Wilde
      Richard Henry Wilde was a United States Representative and lawyer from Georgia.-Biography:Wilde was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1789 to Richard Wilde and Mary Newitt, but came to America at age eight and moved to Augusta, Georgia, in 1802. His brother was Judge John W. Wilde, a judge of Augusta,...

       (DR)

Indiana 

. William Hendricks
William Hendricks
William Hendricks was a Democratic-Republican member of the House of Representatives from 1816 to 1822, the third Governor of Indiana from 1822 to 1825, and an Anti-Jacksonian member of the U.S. Senate from 1825 to 1837. He led much of his family into politics and founded one of the largest...

 (DR), from December 11, 1816

Kentucky 

. James Clark
James Clark (Kentucky)
James Clark was a 19th-century American politician who served in all three branches of Kentucky's government and in the U.S. House of Representatives. His political career began in the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1807...

 (DR)
    • Thomas Fletcher
      Thomas Fletcher (Kentucky)
      Thomas Fletcher was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.Born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Fletcher settled in Montgomery County, Kentucky.He served as member of the State house of representatives in 1803, 1805, and 1806....

       (DR). Henry Clay
      Henry Clay
      Henry Clay, Sr. , was a lawyer, politician and skilled orator who represented Kentucky separately in both the Senate and in the House of Representatives...

       (DR), from October 30, 1815. Richard M. Johnson
      Richard Mentor Johnson
      Richard Mentor Johnson was the ninth Vice President of the United States, serving in the administration of Martin Van Buren . He was the only vice-president ever elected by the United States Senate under the provisions of the Twelfth Amendment. Johnson also represented Kentucky in the U.S...

       (DR). Joseph Desha
      Joseph Desha
      Joseph Desha was a U.S. Representative and the ninth Governor of Kentucky. Desha was the first Kentucky governor not to have served in the Revolutionary War. He did, however, serve under William Henry Harrison and "Mad" Anthony Wayne in the Northwest Indian War, and lost two brothers in battle...

       (DR). Alney McLean
      Alney McLean
      Alney McLean was a United States Representative from Kentucky. McLean County, Kentucky is named in his honor.-Early life:...

       (DR). Solomon P. Sharp
      Solomon P. Sharp
      Solomon Porcius Sharp was attorney general of Kentucky and a member of the United States Congress and the Kentucky General Assembly. His murder at the hands of Jereboam O...

       (DR). Samuel McKee (DR). Stephen Ormsby
      Stephen Ormsby
      Stephen Ormsby was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.He was born in County Sligo, Ireland, immigrated to the United States when a boy, and settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.He pursued classical studies and studied law....

       (DR). Micah Taul
      Micah Taul
      Micah Taul was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky, grandfather of Taul Bradford.Born in Bladensburg, Maryland, Taul moved to Kentucky with his parents in 1787.He attended private school.He studied law....

       (DR). Benjamin Hardin
      Benjamin Hardin
      Benjamin Hardin was a United States Representative from Kentucky. Martin Davis Hardin was his cousin. He was born at the Georges Creek settlement on the Monongahela River, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania and then moved with his parents to Washington County, Kentucky in 1788...

       (DR)

Louisiana 

. Thomas B. Robertson
Thomas B. Robertson
Thomas Bolling Robertson was a member of the U. S. House of Representatives representing the state of Louisiana, the third Governor and the Attorney General of Louisiana, and a United States federal judge....

 (DR)

Maryland 

The 5th district was a plural district with two representatives.. Philip Stuart
Philip Stuart
Philip Stuart was an American politician and soldier who represented the state of Maryland in the House of Representatives....

 (F). John C. Herbert
John Carlyle Herbert
John Carlyle Herbert was an American politician.Born in Alexandria, Virginia, Herbert received private instruction and graduated from St. John's College of Annapolis, Maryland in 1794. He studied law, was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice in Richmond, Virginia around 1795...

 (F). Alexander C. Hanson
Alexander Contee Hanson
Alexander Contee Hanson was an American lawyer, publisher, and statesman. He represented the third district of Maryland in the U.S. House, and the state of Maryland in the U.S. Senate....

 (F), until ????, 1816
    • George Peter (F), from December 2, 1816. George Baer, Jr.
      George Baer, Jr.
      George Baer, Jr. was a United States Representative from the fourth district of Maryland, serving from 1797 to 1801 and from 1815 to 1817....

       (F). Nicholas R. Moore (DR), until ????, 1815
    • Samuel Smith
      Samuel Smith (Maryland)
      Samuel Smith was a United States Senator and Representative from Maryland, a mayor of Baltimore, Maryland, and a general in the Maryland militia. He was the brother of cabinet secretary Robert Smith.-Biography:...

       (DR), from February 4, 1816. William Pinkney
      William Pinkney
      William Pinkney was an American statesman and diplomat, and the seventh U.S. Attorney General.-Biography:Born in Annapolis, Maryland, Pinkney studied medicine and law, becoming a lawyer after his admission to the bar in 1786...

       (DR), until April 18, 1816
    • Peter Little
      Peter Little
      Peter Little was a U.S. Representative from Maryland.Born in Petersburg, Pennsylvania, Little attended the common schools. He initially worked as a watchmaker, until he moved to Freedom, Maryland and engaged in agricultural pursuits...

       (DR), from December 2, 1816. Stevenson Archer (DR). Robert Wright
      Robert Wright (politician)
      Robert Wright was an American politician.Wright was born at Narborough, near Chestertown, Maryland, attended the common schools, and the Kent Free School of Chestertown. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1773, and commenced practice in Chestertown...

       (DR). Charles Goldsborough
      Charles Goldsborough
      Charles Goldsborough served as the 16th Governor of the state of Maryland in the United States in 1819.Goldsborough was born at "Hunting Creek", near Cambridge, Maryland, and pursued an academic course. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1784 and began to study law...

       (F)

Massachusetts 

. Artemas Ward, Jr.
Artemas Ward, Jr.
Artemas Ward, Jr. , like his father, Artemas Ward, was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts. He served in the Thirteenth Congress and Fourteenth Congress . He was a member of the Federalist Party.- References :...

 (F). Timothy Pickering
Timothy Pickering
Timothy Pickering was a politician from Massachusetts who served in a variety of roles, most notably as the third United States Secretary of State, serving in that office from 1795 to 1800 under Presidents George Washington and John Adams.-Early years:Pickering was born in Salem, Massachusetts to...

 (F). Jeremiah Nelson
Jeremiah Nelson
Jeremiah Nelson, was a Representative from Massachusetts.Nelson was born in Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts, September 14, 1769 to Solomon and Elizabeth Nelson. He graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, in 1790...

 (F). Asahel Stearns
Asahel Stearns
Asahel Stearns was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.Born in Lunenburg, Massachusetts, Stearns graduated from Harvard University in 1797. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and commenced the practice of law in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. He served as member of the Massachusetts Senate...

 (F). Elijah H. Mills
Elijah H. Mills
Elijah Hunt Mills was an American politician from Massachusetts.Mills was born in Chesterfield, Massachusetts. He was educated by private tutors and graduated from Williams College in 1797. Mills studied law, was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice in Northampton, Massachusetts...

 (F). Samuel Taggart
Samuel Taggart
Samuel Taggart was a United States Representative from Massachusetts. He was born in Derry, New Hampshire on March 24, 1754. He completed preparatory studies, and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1774. Taggart studied theology and was licensed to preach...

 (F). John W. Hulbert
John W. Hulbert
John Whitefield Hulbert was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.Born in Alford, Massachusetts, Hulbert completed preparatory studies.He graduated from Harvard University in 1795.He studied law....

 (F). William Baylies
William Baylies
William Baylies was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts, brother of Francis Baylies.Born in Dighton, Massachusetts, Baylies was graduated from Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, in 1795 where he studied law...

 (F). John Reed, Jr.
John Reed, Jr.
John Reed, Jr. was a Representative from Massachusetts.Reed was born in West Bridgewater, Massachusetts. He graduated from Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island in 1803, and was a tutor of languages in that institution for two years, and principal of the Bridgewater, Massachusetts Academy in...

 (F). Laban Wheaton
Laban Wheaton
Laban Wheaton was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.-Early life and education:Born in Mansfield, Massachusetts, Wheaton attended Wrentham Academy.He was graduated from Harvard College in 1774....

 (F). Elijah Brigham
Elijah Brigham
Elijah Brigham was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.Born in Westboro , Massachusetts, Brigham was graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, in 1778....

 (F), until February 22, 1816
    • Benjamin Adams (F), from December 2, 1816. Solomon Strong
      Solomon Strong
      Solomon Strong was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, Strong was graduated from Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, in 1798.He studied law....

       (F). Nathaniel Ruggles
      Nathaniel Ruggles
      Nathaniel Ruggles was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.Born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, Ruggles graduated from Harvard University in 1781, studied law, was admitted to the bar, and practiced law in his native town...

       (F). Cyrus King
      Cyrus King
      Cyrus King was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts, half brother of Rufus King.Born in Scarborough, Maine , King attended Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, and was graduated from Columbia College, New York City, in 1794.He studied law.He served as private secretary to Rufus King when...

       (F). George Bradbury
      George Bradbury
      George Bradbury was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.Born in Falmouth, Massachusetts, Bradbury graduated from Harvard University in 1789.He studied law....

       (F). Benjamin Brown
      Benjamin Brown (Congressman)
      Benjamin Brown was a member of the 14th United States Congress. A physician by trade, he served in the Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1809, 1811–1812, 1819 before and after his 1815-1817 term in Congress....

       (F). James Carr (F). Thomas Rice
      Thomas Rice (Massachusetts politician)
      Thomas Rice was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.Thomas Rice was born 30 March 1768 in Pownalborough, Massachusetts, , to Thomas Rice and Rebecca Rice. He graduated from Harvard University in 1791...

       (F). Samuel S. Conner
      Samuel S. Conner
      Samuel Shepard Conner was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.Born in Exeter, New Hampshire, Conner attended Phillips Exeter Academy in 1794. He was graduated from Yale College in 1806...

       (DR). Albion K. Parris
      Albion K. Parris
      Albion Keith Parris was an American politician and jurist of Maine. Parris served in many elected and appointed positions throughout this life, including state legislator, U.S. Senator, the fifth Governor of Maine, state Supreme Court judge, and mayor.-Biography:Parris was born in Hebron, Maine,...

       (DR)

New Hampshire 

All representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket
General ticket
General ticket representation is a term used to describe a particular method of electing members of a multi-member state delegation to the United States House of Representatives...

.. Charles H. Atherton
Charles Humphrey Atherton
Charles Humphrey Atherton was an American Federalist Representative from New Hampshire.Born in Amherst, New Hampshire on 14 August 1773, Atherton graduated from Harvard University in 1794...

 (F). Bradbury Cilley
Bradbury Cilley
Bradbury Cilley was a United States Representative from New Hampshire. He was born in Nottingham, New Hampshire. He attended the common schools and then engaged in agricultural pursuits....

 (F). William Hale
William Hale (politician)
William Hale was a U.S. Representative from New Hampshire.Born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Hale attended the public schools. He was a merchant and shipowner...

 (F). Roger Vose
Roger Vose
Roger Vose was a United States Representative from New Hampshire. He was born in Milton, Massachusetts. He moved to New Hampshire in 1766 with his parents, who settled near Walpole. He graduated from Harvard University in 1790...

 (F). Daniel Webster
Daniel Webster
Daniel Webster was a leading American statesman and senator from Massachusetts during the period leading up to the Civil War. He first rose to regional prominence through his defense of New England shipping interests...

 (F). Jeduthun Wilcox
Jeduthun Wilcox
Jeduthun Wilcox was a United States Representative from New Hampshire. He was born in Middletown, Connecticut. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1802. He commenced practice in Orford, New Hampshire....

 (F)

New Jersey 

All representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket
General ticket
General ticket representation is a term used to describe a particular method of electing members of a multi-member state delegation to the United States House of Representatives...

.. Ezra Baker
Ezra Baker
Ezra Baker was a U.S. Representative from New Jersey.Born in Tuckerton, New Jersey, Baker moved with his parents to the Province of East Jersey about 1765. He was educated for the medical profession and commenced practice. He moved to Absecon, New Jersey, in 1799...

 (DR). Ephraim Bateman
Ephraim Bateman
Ephraim Bateman represented New Jersey in the United States Senate from 1826 to 1829 and in the United States House of Representatives from 1815-1823....

 (DR). Benjamin Bennet
Benjamin Bennet
Benjamin Bennet was a U.S. Representative from New Jersey.Born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Bennet attended the common schools.He studied theology....

 (DR). Lewis Condict
Lewis Condict
Lewis Condict was a United States Representative from New Jersey. Born in Morristown, he attended the common schools, was graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1794, and commenced practice in Morristown...

 (DR). Henry Southard
Henry Southard
Henry Southard was a United States Representative from the state of New Jersey.Southard was born in Hempstead, Long Island, New York. He moved with his parents to Basking Ridge, New Jersey in 1755, where he attended the common schools and worked on a farm. Later, Southard served as a private and...

 (DR). Thomas Ward
Thomas Ward (congressman)
Thomas Ward represented New Jersey's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1813 to 1817.Born in Newark, New Jersey, Ward completed preparatory studies.He studied law....

 (DR)

New York 

There were six plural districts, the 1st, 2nd, 12th, 15th, 20th & 21st, each had two representatives.. Henry Crocheron
Henry Crocheron
Henry Crocheron was a U.S. Representative from New York, brother of Jacob Crocheron.Born on Staten Island, Richmond County, New York, Crocheron attended the common schools.He engaged in mercantile pursuits in Northfield....

 (DR). George Townsend
George Townsend
George Townsend was a U.S. Representative from New York.Born in Lattingtown, township of Oyster Bay, New York, Townsend engaged in agricultural pursuits....

 (DR). William Irving
William Irving (New York)
William Irving was a United States Representative from New York. Born in New York City, he was a brother of diplomat and author Washington Irving. William completed preparatory studies, engaged in mercantile pursuits, and also in fur trade with the Indians along the Mohawk River, residing at...

 (DR). Peter H. Wendover
Peter H. Wendover
Peter Hercules Wendover was a United States Representative from New York.Born in New York City, Wendover received a liberal schooling and held several local offices. He was a member of the volunteer fire department of New York City in 1796...

 (DR). Jonathan Ward
Jonathan Ward (New York)
Jonathan Ward was an American politician from New York.-Life:He received limited schooling...

 (DR). Abraham H. Schenck
Abraham H. Schenck
Abraham Henry Schenck was a U.S. Representative from New York. He was an uncle to Isaac Teller, who also became a representative from New York....

 (DR). Thomas P. Grosvenor
Thomas P. Grosvenor
Thomas Peabody Grosvenor was a United States Representative from New York....

 (F). Jonathan Fisk
Jonathan Fisk
Jonathan Fisk was an American lawyer and politician from New York.-Life:...

 (DR) until March ????, 1815
    • James W. Wilkin
      James W. Wilkin
      James Whitney Wilkin was an American lawyer and politician from New York.-Life:Wilkin served in the Revolutionary War....

       (DR), from December 4, 1815. Samuel R. Betts
      Samuel Rossiter Betts
      Samuel Rossiter Betts was a U.S. Representative from New York and a long-serving United States federal judge.-Life:...

       (DR). Erastus Root
      Erastus Root
      Erastus Root was an American lawyer and politician from New York.-Life:He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1793 and became a teacher...

       (DR), from December 26, 1815. John Lovett
      John Lovett
      John Lovett was an American politician from New York.-Life:...

       (F). Hosea Moffitt
      Hosea Moffitt
      Hosea Moffitt was a U.S. Representative from New York.Born in Stephentown, New York, MoffittDuring the Revolutionary War served as ensign and later as lieutenant in the Fourth Regiment, Albany County Militia.He was in the Justice of the Peace in 1791.Town clerk in 1791 and 1797.He served as...

       (F). John W. Taylor
      John W. Taylor (politician)
      John W. Taylor was an early 19th century U.S. politician from New York.-Life:He was born in 1784 in that part of the Town of Ballston, then in Albany County, New York, which was, upon the creation of Saratoga County in 1791, split off to form the Town of Charlton...

       (DR). Asa Adgate
      Asa Adgate
      Asa Adgate was an iron manufacturer, farmer, and local government official who was selected to fill the vacancy in the United States House of Representatives caused by the death of Benjamin Pond....

       (DR), from December 7, 1815. John Savage (DR). John B. Yates
      John B. Yates
      John Barentse Yates was a U.S. Representative from New York.Born in Schenectady, New York, Yates completed preparatory studies and was graduated from Union College at Schenectady in 1802.He studied law....

       (DR). Daniel Cady
      Daniel Cady
      Daniel Cady was a prominent lawyer and judge in upstate New York. While perhaps better known today as the father of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Judge Cady had a full and accomplished life of his own.-Life:Cady was born in that part of Canaan, Columbia County, New York which was later split off to form...

       (F). James Birdsall
      James Birdsall
      James Birdsall was a U.S. Representative from New York.Born in 1783, Birdsall studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1806. He was the first lawyer to settle in Norwich, New York and became surrogate of Chenango County, New York in 1811...

       (DR). Jabez D. Hammond (DR). Thomas R. Gold
      Thomas R. Gold
      Thomas Ruggles Gold was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Cornwall, Connecticut, he pursued classical studies and was graduated from Yale College in 1786. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Goshen, Connecticut...

       (F). Westel Willoughby, Jr.
      Westel Willoughby, Jr.
      Westel Willoughby, Jr. was a U.S. Representative from New York.Born in Goshen, Connecticut, Willoughby moved to Newport, New York.He studied medicine and engaged in practice....

       (DR), from December 13, 1815. Moss Kent
      Moss Kent
      Moss Kent was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Rensselaer County, he completed preparatory studies, studied law, was admitted to the bar, and practiced. He removed to Cooperstown, New York. He was a member of the New York State Senate from 1799 to 1803 and served in the New...

       (F). Victory Birdseye
      Victory Birdseye
      Victory Birdseye was a U.S. Representative from New York.-Early life and education:Born in Cornwall, Connecticut, Birdseye attended the public schools there. He graduated from Williams College in 1804. Afterward he studied law by reading with a law firm...

       (DR). Oliver C. Comstock (DR). Enos T. Throop
      Enos T. Throop
      Enos Thompson Throop was an American lawyer, politician and diplomat who was the tenth Governor of New York from 1829 to 1832.-Early life and career:...

       (DR), until June 4, 1816
    • Daniel Avery
      Daniel Avery
      Daniel Avery was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Groton, Connecticut, he attended the common schools and was appointed ensign in the Sixth Company, Eighth Regiment of the Connecticut Militia, and served as lieutenant and captain until May 1794...

       (DR), from December 3, 1816. Micah Brooks
      Micah Brooks
      Micah Brooks was a U.S. Representative from New York.-Life:...

       (DR),. Peter B. Porter
      Peter Buell Porter
      Peter Buell Porter was an American lawyer, soldier and politician who served as United States Secretary of War from 1828 to 1829.-Life:...

       (DR), until January 23, 1816
    • Archibald S. Clarke
      Archibald S. Clarke
      Archibald Smith Clarke was a U.S. Representative from New York, brother of Staley Nichols Clarke.Born on a plantation in Prince Georges County, Maryland, Clarke attended grammar and high schools. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and practiced in Niagara County, New York. He served as...

       (DR), from December 2, 1816


North Carolina 

. William H. Murfree
William H. Murfree
William Hardy Murfree was a member of the United States House of Representatives from North Carolina born in Hertford County, North Carolina on October 2, 1781....

 (DR). Joseph H. Bryan
Joseph Hunter Bryan
Joseph Hunter Bryan was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina...

 (DR). James W. Clark
James West Clark
James West Clark was a United States Representative from North Carolina. Born in Bertie County to Hannah and Christopher Clark, a successful sea captain and import/export merchant...

 (DR). William Gaston
William Gaston
William J. Gaston was a jurist and United States Representative from North Carolina. Gaston was born in New Bern, North Carolina, the son of Dr. Alexander Gaston and Margaret Gaston. He entered Georgetown College in Washington, D.C., at the age of thirteen, becoming its first student...

 (F). William R. King
William R. King
William Rufus DeVane King was the 13th Vice President of the United States for about six weeks , and earlier a U.S. Representative from North Carolina, Minister to France, and a Senator from Alabama...

 (DR)
    • Charles Hooks
      Charles Hooks
      Charles Hooks was a United States Representative from North Carolina; born in Bertie County, North Carolina, February 20, 1768; when he was two years old his parents moved to Duplin County, North Carolina and settled on a plantation near Kenansville; became a planter; member of the State house of...

       (DR). Nathaniel Macon
      Nathaniel Macon
      Nathaniel Macon was a spokesman for the Old Republican faction of the Democratic-Republican Party that wanted to strictly limit the United States federal government. Macon was born near Warrenton, North Carolina, and attended the College of New Jersey and served briefly in the American...

       (DR), until December 13, 1815
    • Weldon N. Edwards
      Weldon Nathaniel Edwards
      Weldon Nathaniel Edwards was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina; born in Gaston, North Carolina, January 25, 1788; attended Warrenton Academy; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1810 and commenced practice in Warrenton, North Carolina; member of the State house of...

       (DR), from February 7, 1816. John Culpepper
      John Culpepper
      John Culpepper was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina; born near Wadesboro, Anson County, N.C., in 1761; attended the public schools; became a minister in the Baptist Church; presented credentials as a Federalist Member-elect to the Tenth Congress and served from March 4, 1807,...

       (F). Richard Stanford
      Richard Stanford
      Richard Stanford was a Democratic-Republican U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1797 and 1816.-Biography:...

       (DR), until April 9, 1816
    • Samuel Dickens
      Samuel Dickens
      Samuel Dickens was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina; born near Roxboro in Person County, North Carolina, birth date unknown...

       (DR), from December 2, 1816. Bartlett Yancey
      Bartlett Yancey
      Bartlett Yancey, Jr. was a Democratic-Republican U.S. Congressman from North Carolina, USA, between 1813 and 1817....

       (DR). William C. Love
      William Carter Love
      William Carter Love was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina; born near Norfolk, Virginia, in 1784; moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina; was tutored at home; attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1802–1804; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced...

       (DR). Daniel M. Forney
      Daniel Munroe Forney
      Daniel Munroe Forney was a United States Congressional Representative from North Carolina. He was born near Lincolnton, North Carolina, in May 1784, the son of Peter Forney....

       (DR). Israel Pickens
      Israel Pickens
      Israel Pickens was an American politician and lawyer, third Governor of the U.S. state of Alabama , member of the North Carolina Senate , and North Carolina Congressman in the United States House of Representatives .Born in Concord, North Carolina, Pickens graduated from Jefferson College Israel...

       (DR). Lewis Williams
      Lewis Williams
      For the Welsh rugby union player see Lewis Williams Lewis Williams was a U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1815 and 1842....

       (DR)

Ohio 

. John McLean
John McLean
John McLean was an American jurist and politician who served in the United States Congress, as U.S. Postmaster General, and as a justice on the Ohio and U.S...

 (DR), until ????, 1816
    • William Henry Harrison
      William Henry Harrison
      William Henry Harrison was the ninth President of the United States , an American military officer and politician, and the first president to die in office. He was 68 years, 23 days old when elected, the oldest president elected until Ronald Reagan in 1980, and last President to be born before the...

       (DR), from December 2, 1816. John Alexander (DR). William Creighton, Jr.
      William Creighton, Jr.
      William Creighton was an attorney, banker and legislator. He always signed his name "William Creighton, Jr." because he had an elder cousin of the same name who also lived in Ross County, Ohio.- Early life :...

       (DR). James Caldwell (DR). James Kilbourne
      James Kilbourne
      James Kilbourne was an American surveyor and politician from Ohio.Kilbourne was born in New Britain, Connecticut, and moved his family to Ohio in 1803, when he founded the city of Worthington, Ohio. In 1805 he was appointed United States surveyor of public lands...

       (DR). David Clendenin
      David Clendenin
      David Clendenin was an investor, soldier and legislator. With the exception of about 10 years of his life in Ohio, essentially nothing more is known of David Clendenin....

       (DR)

Pennsylvania 

There were six plural districts, the 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th & 10th had two representatives each, the 1st had four representatives.
. Joseph Hopkinson
Joseph Hopkinson
Joseph Hopkinson was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, and later a United States federal judge.-Early life, education, and career:...

 (F). William Milnor
William Milnor
William Milnor was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania and Mayor of Philadelphia....

 (F). Thomas Smith
Thomas Smith (Pennsylvania congressman)
Thomas Smith was a Federalist member of the United States House of Representatives who served Pennsylvania's 1st congressional district from 1815 to 1817....

 (F). Jonathan Williams
Jonathan Williams (engineer)
Jonathan Williams , American businessman, military figure, politician and writer.Williams was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He was a grandnephew of Benjamin Franklin...

 (DR), until May 16, 1815
    • John Sergeant
      John Sergeant (politician)
      John Sergeant was an American politician who represented Pennsylvania in the House of Representatives. He was born in Philadelphia to Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant and Margaret Spencer...

       (F), from December 6, 1815. William Darlington
      William Darlington
      William Darlington was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.William Darlington was born in Birmingham, Chester County, Pennsylvania. He attended Friends School at Birmingham and spent his youth on a farm...

       (DR). John Hahn
      John Hahn
      John Hahn was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.John Hahn was born in New Hanover Township, Pennsylvania. He studied medicine and practiced. Hahn was elected as a Republican to the Fourteenth Congress. He resumed the practice of medicine and also engaged in...

       (DR). James M. Wallace
      James M. Wallace
      James M. Wallace was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Wallace was born in Hanover Township, Pennsylvania. He pursued preparatory studies in Philadelphia, and participated in the American Revolutionary War as a member of Capt. James Roger’s, Col. Timothy Green’s, and...

       (DR), from October 10, 1815. John Whiteside
      John Whiteside
      John Whiteside was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.John Whiteside was born near Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He attended the common schools and Chestnut Level Academy. He employed on his father’s farm, and later engaged in the hotel business and operated a distillery...

       (DR). Hugh Glasgow
      Hugh Glasgow
      Hugh Glasgow was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Hugh Glasgow was born in East Nottingham Township, Pennsylvania. He engaged in agricultural pursuits. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and practiced...

       (DR). William Crawford
      William Crawford (Pennsylvania)
      William Crawford was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Crawford was born in Paisley, Scotland, in 1760. He received a liberal schooling, studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, and in 1781 received his degree. He emigrated to the United States and...

       (DR). William Maclay
      William Maclay (Representative)
      William Maclay was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Maclay was born in Lurgan Township, Pennsylvania. He attended the country schools, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1800 and commenced the practice of his profession at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania...

       (DR). Samuel D. Ingham
      Samuel D. Ingham
      Samuel Delucenna Ingham was a U.S. Congressman and U.S. Treasury Secretary under President Andrew Jackson.-Early life and education:...

       (DR). John Ross
      John Ross (representative)
      John Ross , was a Representative to the U.S. Congress from Pennsylvania....

       (DR). Joseph Hiester
      Joseph Hiester
      Joseph Hiester was the fifth Governor of Pennsylvania from 1820 to 1823. He was a member of the Hiester family political dynasty.-Biography:...

       (DR). William Piper
      William Piper
      William Piper was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.He was born at Bloody Run , Bedford County, Pennsylvania. He commanded a regiment during the War of 1812, and served as adjutant general of Pennsylvania after the war. He served in the Pennsylvania State Senate...

       (DR). David Bard
      David Bard
      David Bard was a United States Representative from Pennsylvania. Born at Carroll's Delight, Adams County, Pennsylvania, he graduated from Princeton College in 1773....

       (DR), until March 12, 1815
    • Thomas Burnside
      Thomas Burnside
      Thomas Burnside was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania and associate justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania....

       (DR), from December 11, 1815 until April ????, 1816
    • William P. Maclay
      William Plunkett Maclay
      William Plunkett Maclay was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.William P. Maclay was born in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania...

       (DR), from December 3, 1816. Jared Irwin (DR). William Wilson (DR). William Findley
      William Findley
      William Findley was an Irish-born farmer and politician from Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. He served in both houses of the state legislature and represented Pennsylvania in the U.S. House from 1791 until 1799 and from 1803 to 1817.-Early years:William Findley was born in Ulster, Ireland and...

       (DR). Aaron Lyle
      Aaron Lyle
      Aaron Lyle was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Aaron Lyle was born in Mount Bethel, Pennsylvania. He served in the American Revolutionary War, and was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1797 to 1801. He served in the Pennsylvania State...

       (DR). Isaac Griffin
      Isaac Griffin
      Isaac Griffin was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Isaac Griffin was born in Kent County, Delaware. He moved to Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and was engaged in agricultural pursuits...

       (DR). John Woods
      John Woods (Pennsylvania)
      John Woods was a United States Representative from Pennsylvania....

       (F). Thomas Wilson
      Thomas Wilson (Pennsylvania)
      Thomas Wilson was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Thomas Wilson was born near Sunbury, Pennsylvania. He had the contract for supplying the western forts of the United States from Niagara to New Orleans. He was engaged in shipbuilding in Erie, Pennsylvania, in 1805...

       (DR)

Rhode Island 

Both representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket
General ticket
General ticket representation is a term used to describe a particular method of electing members of a multi-member state delegation to the United States House of Representatives...

.. John L. Boss, Jr. (F). James B. Mason (F)

South Carolina 

. Henry Middleton
Henry Middleton (governor)
Henry Middleton was an American planter and political leader from Charleston, South Carolina. He was the 43rd Governor of South Carolina , represented South Carolina in the U. S...

 (DR). William Lowndes (DR). Benjamin Huger (F). John J. Chappell
John J. Chappell
John Joel Chappell was a U.S. Representative from South Carolina.Born on Little River, near Columbia, Fairfield District, South Carolina, where the family was on a visit, ChappellAs an infant was taken by his parents to their home on the Congaree River, Richland District, South Carolina.He...

 (DR). William Woodward (DR). John C. Calhoun
John C. Calhoun
John Caldwell Calhoun was a leading politician and political theorist from South Carolina during the first half of the 19th century. Calhoun eloquently spoke out on every issue of his day, but often changed positions. Calhoun began his political career as a nationalist, modernizer, and proponent...

 (DR). John Taylor
John Taylor (14th Congress)
John Taylor was a United States Representative from South Carolina. His birth date is unknown. Taylor was a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives, 1802–1805...

 (DR). Thomas Moore
Thomas Moore (Congressman)
Thomas Moore was a member of the United State House of Representatives and planter from South Carolina.Born in Spartanburg District, South Carolina, Moore served in the during the Revolutionary War, taking part in the Battle of Cowpens at the age of 16. He served in the South Carolina House of...

 (DR). William Mayrant
William Mayrant
William Mayrant was a U.S. Representative from South Carolina.William Mayrant was elected in 1814 as a Democratic-Republican to the Fourteenth Congress and served until his resignation on October 21, 1816...

 (DR)
    • Stephen D. Miller
      Stephen Decatur Miller
      Stephen Decatur Miller was an American politician, who served as the 52nd Governor of South Carolina from 1828 to 1830. He represented South Carolina as a U.S. Representative from 1817 to 1819, and as a U.S. Senator from 1831 to 1833.He was born in Waxhaw settlement, South Carolina and graduated...

       (DR)

Tennessee 

. Samuel Powell
Samuel Powell
For the Continental Congressman and Mayor of Philadelphia, see Samuel Powel.Samuel Powell , was an American politician who represented Tennessee in the United States House of Representatives.-Early life:...

 (DR). John Sevier
John Sevier
John Sevier served four years as the only governor of the State of Franklin and twelve years as Governor of Tennessee. As a U.S. Representative from Tennessee from 1811 until his death...

 (DR), until September 24, 1815
    • William G. Blount
      William Grainger Blount
      William Grainger Blount was a statesman from Tennessee, the son of William Blount and the nephew of Thomas Blount. He was born near New Bern, North Carolina in Craven County and attended the New Bern Academy....

       (DR), from January 8, 1816. Isaac Thomas
      Isaac Thomas
      Isaac Thomas was an American politician representing Tennessee in the United States House of Representatives. He was born in Sevierville, Tennessee on November 4, 1784. After the death of his parents, he moved to Winchester, Tennessee in 1800. He was self-educated, and he studied law. He was...

       (DR). Bennett H. Henderson
      Bennett H. Henderson
      Bennett Hillsman Henderson, was an American politician who represented Tennessee in the United States House of Representatives. Born in Bedford, Virginia, he moved to Tennessee and was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Fourteenth Congress, which lasted from March 4, 1815 to 1817. He died...

       (DR). Newton Cannon
      Newton Cannon
      Newton Cannon was an American politician who was a member of the Tennessee State Senate from 1811 to 1812 and 1829 to 1830, the U.S. House of Representatives from 1814 to 1817 and 1819 to 1823, and Governor of the U.S...

       (DR). James B. Reynolds
      James B. Reynolds
      James B. Reynolds was an American politician that represented Tennessee in the United States House of Representatives. He was born in County Antrim, Ireland in 1779. He attended the common schools and immigrated to the United States in 1798. In 1804 he settled in Clarksville, Tennessee and studied...

       (DR)

Vermont 

All representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket
General ticket
General ticket representation is a term used to describe a particular method of electing members of a multi-member state delegation to the United States House of Representatives...

.. Daniel Chipman
Daniel Chipman
Daniel Chipman was a United States Representative from Vermont. He was born in Salisbury, Connecticut. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1788. He studied law and was admitted to the bar and practiced in Rutland, Vermont 1790–1794. In addition, he was a member of the state constitutional...

 (F), until May 5, 1816. Luther Jewett
Luther Jewett
Luther Jewett was a United States Representative from Vermont. He was born in Canterbury, Connecticut, and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1795. He studied medicine and practiced in Putney, Vermont....

 (F). Chauncey Langdon
Chauncey Langdon
Chauncey Langdon was a United States Representative from Vermont. He was born in Farmington, Connecticut. He pursued classical studies and was graduated from Yale College in 1787. He also studied law at Litchfield, Connecticut and was admitted to the bar in 1787...

 (F). Asa Lyon
Asa Lyon
Asa Lyon was a United States Representative from Vermont. He was born in Pomfret, Connecticut. He attended the common schools and was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1790. He was a divinity student with the Rev. Charles Backus at Somers, Connecticut and was ordained the pastor of the...

 (F). Charles Marsh
Charles Marsh
Charles Marsh was a Vermont politician who served in the United States House of Representatives.He was born in Lebanon, Connecticut. A graduate of Dartmouth College, he was appointed by George Washington to be U.S...

 (F). John Noyes
John Noyes
John Noyes was a Vermont politician who was a member of the United States House of Representatives.He was born in Atkinson, New Hampshire and attended private schools. Noyes graduated from Dartmouth College in 1795...

 (F)

Virginia 

. John G. Jackson
John G. Jackson (politician)
John George Jackson was a U.S. Representative and federal judge from Virginia, the son of George Jackson, brother of Edward B...

 (DR). Magnus Tate
Magnus Tate
Magnus Tate was a U.S. Representative from Virginia.Born in Berkeley County, Virginia , Tate studied law.He was admitted to the bar and practiced.He engaged in agricultural pursuits....

 (F). Henry St. George Tucker
Henry St. George Tucker, Sr.
Henry St. George Tucker, Sr. was a Virginia jurist, law professor, and U.S. Congressman .-Biography:Tucker was born in Williamsburg, Virginia on December 29, 1780. As a young man, Tucker pursued classical studies at the College of William & Mary; he graduated in 1798...

 (DR). William McCoy
William McCoy (congressman)
William McCoy was an 18th and 19th century politician from Virginia.Born near Warrenton, Virginia, McCoy was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1798 to 1804 and was a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention in 1829 and 1830...

 (DR). James Breckinridge
James Breckinridge
James Breckinridge was a Virginia lawyer and politician. He served in the Virginia House of Delegates, as well as the U.S. House of Representatives. He also fought in the American Revolutionary War and served as a brigadier-general during the War of 1812.-Family and early life:Breckinridge was...

 (F). Daniel Sheffey
Daniel Sheffey
Daniel Sheffey was a U.S. Representative from Virginia.Born in Frederick, Maryland, Sheffey pursued classical studies.Apprenticed as a shoemaker in his father's shop.He moved to Wytheville, Virginia, in 1791....

 (F). Ballard Smith
Ballard Smith
Ballard Smith was a soldier and congressman from Virginia.Smith was born in Hanover County, Virginia. In the Revolutionary War, he rose to the now-defunct rank of captain lieutenant in the 1st Virginia Regiment of the Continental Army...

 (DR). Joseph Lewis, Jr.
Joseph Lewis, Jr.
Joseph Lewis, Jr. was an 18th century and 19th century politician and lawyer from Virginia.Born in Virginia, Lewis served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1799 to 1803. He was then elected a Federalist to the United States House of Representatives in 1802, serving from 1803 to 1817...

 (F). John P. Hungerford
John Hungerford (congressman)
John Pratt Hungerford was an 18th- and 19th-century politician and lawyer from Virginia.Born in Leeds, Virginia, Hungerford received an elementary education under private teachers as a child. He studied law and was admitted to the bar...

 (DR). Aylett Hawes
Aylett Hawes
Aylett Hawes was a nineteenth century politician and planter from Virginia. He was the uncle of Richard Hawes, Albert Gallatin Hawes and Aylett Hawes Buckner....

 (DR). Philip P. Barbour
Philip Pendleton Barbour
Philip Pendleton Barbour was a U.S. Congressman from Virginia and an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was also the brother of Virginia governor and U.S. Secretary of War James Barbour as well as the first cousin of John S. Barbour and first cousin, once removed of John S...

 (DR). William H. Roane
William H. Roane
William Henry Roane was a politician from Virginia. He was the son of Judge Spencer Roane and the grandson of founding father Patrick Henry.Born in Virginia, Roane pursued in preparatory studies as a young man...

 (DR). Burwell Bassett
Burwell Bassett
Burwell Bassett, Jr. was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1787 to 1789, and the Virginia Senate from 1794 to 1805.-Biography:...

 (DR). William A. Burwell
William A. Burwell
William Armisted Burwell was a nineteenth century congressman and presidential secretary from Virginia....

 (DR). Matthew Clay
Matthew Clay
Matthew Clay was a United States Representative from Virginia. Born in Halifax County , during the American Revolutionary War he entered the Ninth Virginia Regiment on October 1, 1776...

 (DR), until May 27, 1815
    • John Kerr
      John Kerr (Virginia Congressman)
      John Kerr , father of John Kerr, Jr., cousin of Bartlett Yancey, and grand-uncle of John H. Kerr, was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives representing Virginia from 1813 to March 1815 and again from October 1815 to 1817.-External links:...

       (DR), from December 5, 1815. John Randolph
      John Randolph of Roanoke
      John Randolph , known as John Randolph of Roanoke, was a planter and a Congressman from Virginia, serving in the House of Representatives , the Senate , and also as Minister to Russia...

       (DR). James Pleasants
      James Pleasants
      James Pleasants, Jr. was an American politician who served in the U.S. Senate from 1819 to 1822 and was the 22nd Governor of Virginia from 1822 to 1825. Pleasants was born at “Cold Comfort,” in Powhatan County, Virginia, October 24, 1769. He pursued classical studies and graduated from the College...

       (DR). Thomas Gholson, Jr.
      Thomas Gholson, Jr.
      Thomas Gholson, Jr. was an American lawyer and politician. He represented Virginia from 1808 to 1816 in the United States House of Representatives from both Virginia's 18th congressional district and Virginia's 17th congressional district both now obsolete congressional districts...

       (DR)
    • Thomas M. Nelson
      Thomas M. Nelson
      Thomas Maduit Nelson was a 19th-century politician from Virginia, United States.Born in Oak Hills, Virginia, Nelson attended the common schools as a child. During the War of 1812, he was commissioned a captain to the 10th Infantry Regiment and was later promoted to major in the 13th and 18th...

       (DR). Peterson Goodwyn
      Peterson Goodwyn
      Peterson Goodwyn was a soldier, politician and planter from Virginia.Born at "Martins" near Petersburg, Virginia, Goodwyn was education by private teachers as a child and went on to complete his preparatory studies...

       (DR). James Johnson (DR). Thomas Newton, Jr.
      Thomas Newton, Jr.
      Thomas Newton, Jr. was an American politician. He was born in Norfolk, Virginia.Newton was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1796 to 1799. He served as a Democratic-Republican in the United States House of Representatives from March 4, 1801 to March 9, 1830.-External links:*...

       (DR). Hugh Nelson
      Hugh Nelson (congressman)
      Hugh Nelson was a U.S. Representative from Virginia, son of Thomas Nelson, Jr..Born in Yorktown, Virginia, Nelson completed preparatory studies....

       (DR). John Clopton
      John Clopton
      John Clopton was a United States Representative from Virginia. Born in St. Peter's Parish , his father was William Clopton and his mother was Elizabeth Dorrell Ford , he graduated from the College of Philadelphia in 1776...

       (DR)
    • John Tyler
      John Tyler
      John Tyler was the tenth President of the United States . A native of Virginia, Tyler served as a state legislator, governor, U.S. representative, and U.S. senator before being elected Vice President . He was the first to succeed to the office of President following the death of a predecessor...

       (DR)

Non-voting members

. Benjamin Stephenson
Benjamin Stephenson
Benjamin Stephenson was born in Pennsylvania on July 8, 1769. He moved to Virginia in 1788, and then to the Illinois Territory. He became sheriff of Randolph County, Illinois in 1809....

    • Nathaniel Pope
      Nathaniel Pope
      Nathaniel Pope was a politician and jurist from the U.S. state of Illinois.-Early life, education, and career:...

      . Jonathan Jennings
      Jonathan Jennings
      Jonathan Jennings was the first Governor of Indiana and a nine-term congressman from Indiana. Born in Readington, New Jersey, he studied law with his brother before immigrating to Indiana in 1806 where he took part in land speculation...

      , until December 11, 1816. William Lattimore
      William Lattimore
      William Lattimore was Delegate to the United States House of Representatives from Mississippi Territory. Lattimore was born in Norfolk, Virginia on February 9, 1774. William attended the common schools, where he studied medicine. He later moved to Natchez, Mississippi Territory, and practiced his...

      . Rufus Easton
      Rufus Easton
      Rufus Easton was a Delegate from the Territory of Missouri.Born in Litchfield, Connecticut, Easton completed an academic course....

      , until August 5, 1816
    • John Scott, August 6, 1816 – January 13, 1817


Changes in membership

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

Senate

|-
| Tennessee
(1)
| Vacant
| style="font-size:80%" |
| | George W. Campbell
George W. Campbell
George Washington Campbell was an American statesman who served as a U.S. Representative, Senator, Tennessee Supreme Court Justice, U.S...

 (DR)
| Took seat October 10, 1815
|-
| Maryland
(1)
| Vacant
| style="font-size:80%" | Elected March 4, 1815, but delayed installation
| | Robert G. Harper
Robert Goodloe Harper
Robert Goodloe Harper , a Federalist, was a member of the United States Senate from Maryland, serving from January 1816 until his resignation in December of the same year. He also served in the South Carolina House of Representatives , the U.S. House of Representatives from South Carolina , and in...

 (F)
| Took seat January, 1816
|-
| Virginia
(2)
| Vacant
| style="font-size:80%" | Resignation of William B. Giles
William Branch Giles
William Branch Giles ; the name is pronounced jyles) was an American statesman, long-term Senator from Virginia, and the 24th Governor of Virginia...

 from previous congress
| | Armistead T. Mason
Armistead Thomson Mason
Armistead Thomson Mason , the son of Stevens Thomson Mason, was a U.S. Senator from Virginia from 1816 to 1817.-Early life and education:...

 (DR)
| Took seat January 3, 1816
|-
| Tennessee
(2)
| | Jesse Wharton
Jesse Wharton
Jesse Wharton was an attorney who briefly represented Tennessee in each house of Congress.-Biography:Wharton was born in Albemarle County, Virginia and studied law and was admitted to the Virginia bar. Moving to Tennessee, he was elected to the United States House of Representatives from that...

 (DR)
| style="font-size:80%" | Successor elected October 10, 1815. Wharton was appointed in previous term to fill remaining term of George W. Campbell
George W. Campbell
George Washington Campbell was an American statesman who served as a U.S. Representative, Senator, Tennessee Supreme Court Justice, U.S...

.
| | John Williams
John Williams (Tennessee)
John Williams was an American lawyer, soldier, and statesman, operating primarily out of Knoxville, Tennessee, in the first part of the 19th century. He represented Tennessee in the United States Senate from 1815 to 1823, when he lost reelection to Andrew Jackson. Williams also served as colonel...

 (DR)
| Seated October 10, 1815
|-
| North Carolina
(3)
| Francis Locke
Francis Locke
Francis Locke was a U.S. senator from the state of North Carolina. Francis Locke was the son of Francis Locke and Anne Brandon...


| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned December 5, 1815, having never qualified
| | Nathaniel Macon
Nathaniel Macon
Nathaniel Macon was a spokesman for the Old Republican faction of the Democratic-Republican Party that wanted to strictly limit the United States federal government. Macon was born near Warrenton, North Carolina, and attended the College of New Jersey and served briefly in the American...

 (DR)
| Seated December 13, 1815
|-
| Kentucky
(2)
| | William T. Barry
William T. Barry
William Taylor Barry was an American statesman and jurist.-History:Born near Lunenburg, Virginia, he moved to Fayette County, Kentucky, in 1796 with his parents John Barry, an American Revolutionary War veteran, and Susannah Barry...

 (DR)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned May 1, 1816 after being appointed to a judicial position
| | Martin D. Hardin
Martin D. Hardin
Martin Davis Hardin was a United States Senator from Kentucky.-Biography:Born along the Monongahela River in western Pennsylvania, Hardin moved with his parents to Kentucky in 1786. He pursued an academic course, and attended Transylvania Seminary in Lexington, Kentucky...

 (F)
| Seated November 13, 1816
|-
| Massachusetts
(1)
| | Christopher Gore
Christopher Gore
Christopher Gore was a prominent Massachusetts lawyer, Federalist politician, and diplomat.-Biography:Gore was born in Boston in 1758, the tenth of thirteen children of Frances and John Gore, a successful merchant and artisan...

 (F)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned May 30, 1816
| | Eli P. Ashmun
Eli P. Ashmun
Eli Porter Ashmun was a Federalist United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1816 to 1818.Born in a small village north of Albany, New York on the Hudson River, he attended the local school and attended Middlebury College, graduating in 1807...

 (F)
| Seated June 12, 1816
|-
| South Carolina
(2)
| | John Taylor (DR)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned November, 1816
| | William Smith
William Smith (South Carolina senator)
William Smith was chosen as a Democratic-Republican to the U.S. Senate representing South Carolina in 1816. The legislature declined to re-elect him when his term expired in 1823...

 (DR)
| Seated December 4, 1816
|-
| Georgia
(2)
| | William W. Bibb
William Wyatt Bibb
William Wyatt Bibb was a United States Senator from Georgia and the first Governor of the U.S. state of Alabama. Bibb County, Alabama, and Bibb County, Georgia, are named for him....

 (DR)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned November 9, 1816 after being appointed Governor of Alabama Territory
Alabama Territory
The Territory of Alabama was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from August 15, 1817, until December 14, 1819, when it was admitted to the Union as the State of Alabama.-History:...


| | George Troup
George Troup
George Michael Troup was an American politician from the U.S. state of Georgia. He served in the Georgia General Assembly, U.S. House of Representatives, and Senate before becoming the 32nd Governor of Georgia for two terms and then returning to the Senate...

 (DR)
| Seated November 13, 1816
|-
| North Carolina
(2)
| | James Turner
James Turner
James Turner was the 12th Governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1802 to 1805. He later served as a U.S. senator between 1805 and 1816....

 (DR)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned November 21, 1816 due to ill health
| | Montfort Stokes
Montfort Stokes
Montfort Stokes was an American Democratic politician who served as U.S. Senator from 1816 to 1823, and the 25th Governor of North Carolina from 1830 to 1832....

 (DR)
| Seated December 4, 1816
|-
| Maryland
(1)
| | Robert G. Harper
Robert Goodloe Harper
Robert Goodloe Harper , a Federalist, was a member of the United States Senate from Maryland, serving from January 1816 until his resignation in December of the same year. He also served in the South Carolina House of Representatives , the U.S. House of Representatives from South Carolina , and in...

 (F)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned December, 1816
| | Alexander C. Hanson
Alexander Contee Hanson
Alexander Contee Hanson was an American lawyer, publisher, and statesman. He represented the third district of Maryland in the U.S. House, and the state of Maryland in the U.S. Senate....

 (F)
| Seated December 20, 1816
|-
| Indiana
(1)
| rowspan=2 | New seats
| rowspan=2 style="font-size:80%" | Indiana was admitted to the Union on December 11, 1816
| | James Noble
James Noble
James Noble was the first U.S. Senator from the U.S. state of Indiana.Noble was born near Berryville, Virginia and moved with his parents to Campbell County, Kentucky when he was 10...

 (DR)
| rowspan=2 | Seated December 11, 1816
|-
| Indiana
(3)
| | Waller Taylor
Waller Taylor
Waller Taylor was an American military commander and politician.-Biography:Taylor was born in Lunenburg County, Virginia where he spent his entire childhood. He studied law and served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1800 to 1802.In 1804 he moved to Vincennes, Indiana and practiced law...

 (DR)
|}

House of Representatives

|-
|
| Vacant
| style="font-size:80%" | Rep.-elect Benjamin Pond
Benjamin Pond
Benjamin Pond was a United States Representative from New York.-Early life:He was born in Stockbridge, Massachusetts in 1768. He attended the common schools and in 1800 moved to Poultney, Vermont, and still later to the town of Crown Point , which is now comprised in the town of North Hudson, New...

 died during previous congress
| | Asa Adgate
Asa Adgate
Asa Adgate was an iron manufacturer, farmer, and local government official who was selected to fill the vacancy in the United States House of Representatives caused by the death of Benjamin Pond....

 (DR)
| December 7, 1815
|-
|
| Vacant
| style="font-size:80%" | Amos Ellmaker
Amos Ellmaker
Amos Ellmaker was a U.S. political figure from Pennsylvania. He served as the Anti-Masonic vice-presidential candidate in the 1832 presidential elections....

 resigned on July 3, 1815, upon State appointment as judge
| | James M. Wallace
James M. Wallace
James M. Wallace was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Wallace was born in Hanover Township, Pennsylvania. He pursued preparatory studies in Philadelphia, and participated in the American Revolutionary War as a member of Capt. James Roger’s, Col. Timothy Green’s, and...

 (DR)
| December 4, 1815
|-
|
| Vacant
| style="font-size:80%" | seat declared vacant by the governor, “caused by the acceptance of Henry Clay
Henry Clay
Henry Clay, Sr. , was a lawyer, politician and skilled orator who represented Kentucky separately in both the Senate and in the House of Representatives...

 to sign a commercial convention as Minister Plenipotentiary to Great Britain
United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom
The office of United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom was traditionally, and still is very much so today due to the Special Relationship, the most prestigious position in the United States Foreign Service...

”, but Clay was elected to fill his own vacancy
| | Henry Clay
Henry Clay
Henry Clay, Sr. , was a lawyer, politician and skilled orator who represented Kentucky separately in both the Senate and in the House of Representatives...

 (DR)
| December 4, 1815
|-
|
| | William S. Smith
| style="font-size:80%" | Credentials for Smith were issued by the Secretary of State of New York
Secretary of State of New York
The Secretary of State of New York is a cabinet officer in the government of the U.S. state of New York.The current Secretary of State of New York is Cesar A...

, but Smith did not take or claim the seat, contested by Willoughby, Jr.
| | Westel Willoughby, Jr.
Westel Willoughby, Jr.
Westel Willoughby, Jr. was a U.S. Representative from New York.Born in Goshen, Connecticut, Willoughby moved to Newport, New York.He studied medicine and engaged in practice....

 (DR)
| December 13, 1815
|-
|
| | John Adams
John Adams (New York)
John Adams was a United States Congressman from New York.-Life:...


| style="font-size:80%" | Credentials for Adams were issued by the Secretary of State of New York
Secretary of State of New York
The Secretary of State of New York is a cabinet officer in the government of the U.S. state of New York.The current Secretary of State of New York is Cesar A...

, but Adams did not take or claim the seat, contested by Root
| | Erastus Root
Erastus Root
Erastus Root was an American lawyer and politician from New York.-Life:He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1793 and became a teacher...

 (DR)
| December 26, 1815
|-
|
| | Nicholas R. Moore
Nicholas Ruxton Moore
Nicholas Ruxton Moore was a U.S. Representative from Maryland.Born near Baltimore Town, Maryland, Moore attended the common schools. He served as member of Gist's Baltimore Independent Cadets and served throughout the greater part of the Revolutionary War, attaining the rank of captain...

 (DR)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned sometime in 1815 before Congress convened
| | Samuel Smith
Samuel Smith (Maryland)
Samuel Smith was a United States Senator and Representative from Maryland, a mayor of Baltimore, Maryland, and a general in the Maryland militia. He was the brother of cabinet secretary Robert Smith.-Biography:...

 (DR)
| February 4, 1816
|-
|
| | Jonathan Fisk
Jonathan Fisk
Jonathan Fisk was an American lawyer and politician from New York.-Life:...

 (DR)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned sometime in March, 1815, upon appointment as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York
| | James W. Wilkin
James W. Wilkin
James Whitney Wilkin was an American lawyer and politician from New York.-Life:Wilkin served in the Revolutionary War....

 (DR)
| December 4, 1815
|-
|
| | David Bard
David Bard
David Bard was a United States Representative from Pennsylvania. Born at Carroll's Delight, Adams County, Pennsylvania, he graduated from Princeton College in 1773....

 (DR)
| style="font-size:80%" | Died March 12, 1815
| | Thomas Burnside
Thomas Burnside
Thomas Burnside was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania and associate justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania....

 (DR)
| December 11, 1815
|-
|
| | Jonathan Williams
Jonathan Williams (engineer)
Jonathan Williams , American businessman, military figure, politician and writer.Williams was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He was a grandnephew of Benjamin Franklin...

 (DR)
| style="font-size:80%" | Died May 16, 1815
| | John Sergeant
John Sergeant (politician)
John Sergeant was an American politician who represented Pennsylvania in the House of Representatives. He was born in Philadelphia to Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant and Margaret Spencer...

 (F)
| December 6, 1815
|-
|
| | Matthew Clay
Matthew Clay
Matthew Clay was a United States Representative from Virginia. Born in Halifax County , during the American Revolutionary War he entered the Ninth Virginia Regiment on October 1, 1776...

 (DR)
| style="font-size:80%" | Died May 27, 1815
| | John Kerr
John Kerr (Virginia Congressman)
John Kerr , father of John Kerr, Jr., cousin of Bartlett Yancey, and grand-uncle of John H. Kerr, was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives representing Virginia from 1813 to March 1815 and again from October 1815 to 1817.-External links:...

 (DR)
| December 5, 1815
|-
|
| | John Sevier
John Sevier
John Sevier served four years as the only governor of the State of Franklin and twelve years as Governor of Tennessee. As a U.S. Representative from Tennessee from 1811 until his death...

 (DR)
| style="font-size:80%" | Died September 24, 1815
| | William G. Blount
William Grainger Blount
William Grainger Blount was a statesman from Tennessee, the son of William Blount and the nephew of Thomas Blount. He was born near New Bern, North Carolina in Craven County and attended the New Bern Academy....

 (DR)
| January 8, 1816
|-
|
| | Nathaniel Macon
Nathaniel Macon
Nathaniel Macon was a spokesman for the Old Republican faction of the Democratic-Republican Party that wanted to strictly limit the United States federal government. Macon was born near Warrenton, North Carolina, and attended the College of New Jersey and served briefly in the American...

 (DR)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned December 13, 1815 after being elected to the U.S. Senate
| | Weldon N. Edwards
Weldon Nathaniel Edwards
Weldon Nathaniel Edwards was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina; born in Gaston, North Carolina, January 25, 1788; attended Warrenton Academy; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1810 and commenced practice in Warrenton, North Carolina; member of the State house of...

 (DR)
| February 7, 1816
|-
|
| | Alexander C. Hanson
Alexander Contee Hanson
Alexander Contee Hanson was an American lawyer, publisher, and statesman. He represented the third district of Maryland in the U.S. House, and the state of Maryland in the U.S. Senate....

 (F)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned sometime in 1816
| | George Peter (F)
| December 2, 1816
|-
|
| | John McLean
John McLean
John McLean was an American jurist and politician who served in the United States Congress, as U.S. Postmaster General, and as a justice on the Ohio and U.S...

 (DR)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned sometime in 1816
| | William Henry Harrison
William Henry Harrison
William Henry Harrison was the ninth President of the United States , an American military officer and politician, and the first president to die in office. He was 68 years, 23 days old when elected, the oldest president elected until Ronald Reagan in 1980, and last President to be born before the...

 (DR)
| December 2, 1816
|-
|
| | Peter B. Porter
Peter Buell Porter
Peter Buell Porter was an American lawyer, soldier and politician who served as United States Secretary of War from 1828 to 1829.-Life:...

 (DR)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned January 23, 1816
| | Archibald S. Clarke
Archibald S. Clarke
Archibald Smith Clarke was a U.S. Representative from New York, brother of Staley Nichols Clarke.Born on a plantation in Prince Georges County, Maryland, Clarke attended grammar and high schools. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and practiced in Niagara County, New York. He served as...

 (DR)
| December 2, 1816
|-
|
| | Elijah Brigham
Elijah Brigham
Elijah Brigham was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.Born in Westboro , Massachusetts, Brigham was graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, in 1778....

 (F)
| style="font-size:80%" | Died February 22, 1816
| | Benjamin Adams (F)
| Seated December 2, 1816
|-
|
| | Thomas Burnside
Thomas Burnside
Thomas Burnside was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania and associate justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania....

 (DR)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned April, 1816
| | William P. Maclay
William Plunkett Maclay
William Plunkett Maclay was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.William P. Maclay was born in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania...

 (DR)
| December 3, 1816
|-
|
| | Richard Stanford
Richard Stanford
Richard Stanford was a Democratic-Republican U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1797 and 1816.-Biography:...

 (DR)
| style="font-size:80%" | Died April 9, 1816
| | Samuel Dickens
Samuel Dickens
Samuel Dickens was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina; born near Roxboro in Person County, North Carolina, birth date unknown...

 (DR)
| Seated December 2, 1816
|-
|
| | William Pinkney
William Pinkney
William Pinkney was an American statesman and diplomat, and the seventh U.S. Attorney General.-Biography:Born in Annapolis, Maryland, Pinkney studied medicine and law, becoming a lawyer after his admission to the bar in 1786...

 (DR)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned April 18, 1816, upon appointment as Minister Plenipotentiary to Russia
| | Peter Little
Peter Little
Peter Little was a U.S. Representative from Maryland.Born in Petersburg, Pennsylvania, Little attended the common schools. He initially worked as a watchmaker, until he moved to Freedom, Maryland and engaged in agricultural pursuits...

 (DR)
| December 2, 1816
|-
|
| | Daniel Chipman
Daniel Chipman
Daniel Chipman was a United States Representative from Vermont. He was born in Salisbury, Connecticut. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1788. He studied law and was admitted to the bar and practiced in Rutland, Vermont 1790–1794. In addition, he was a member of the state constitutional...

 (F)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned May 5, 1816
| colspan=2 | Vacant until next Congress
|-
|
| | Enos T. Throop
Enos T. Throop
Enos Thompson Throop was an American lawyer, politician and diplomat who was the tenth Governor of New York from 1829 to 1832.-Early life and career:...

 (DR)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned June 4, 1816
| | Daniel Avery
Daniel Avery
Daniel Avery was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Groton, Connecticut, he attended the common schools and was appointed ensign in the Sixth Company, Eighth Regiment of the Connecticut Militia, and served as lieutenant and captain until May 1794...

 (DR)
| December 3, 1816
|-
|
| | Thomas Gholson, Jr.
Thomas Gholson, Jr.
Thomas Gholson, Jr. was an American lawyer and politician. He represented Virginia from 1808 to 1816 in the United States House of Representatives from both Virginia's 18th congressional district and Virginia's 17th congressional district both now obsolete congressional districts...

 (DR)
| style="font-size:80%" | Died July 4, 1816
| | Thomas M. Nelson
Thomas M. Nelson
Thomas Maduit Nelson was a 19th-century politician from Virginia, United States.Born in Oak Hills, Virginia, Nelson attended the common schools as a child. During the War of 1812, he was commissioned a captain to the 10th Infantry Regiment and was later promoted to major in the 13th and 18th...

 (DR)
| December 4, 1816
|-
|
| | James Clark
James Clark (Kentucky)
James Clark was a 19th-century American politician who served in all three branches of Kentucky's government and in the U.S. House of Representatives. His political career began in the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1807...

 (DR)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned sometime in August, 1816
| | Thomas Fletcher
Thomas Fletcher (Kentucky)
Thomas Fletcher was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.Born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Fletcher settled in Montgomery County, Kentucky.He served as member of the State house of representatives in 1803, 1805, and 1806....

 (DR)
| December 2, 1816
|-
|
| Rufus Easton
Rufus Easton
Rufus Easton was a Delegate from the Territory of Missouri.Born in Litchfield, Connecticut, Easton completed an academic course....


| style="font-size:80%" | served throughout the first session; Scott presented credentials at the beginning of the second session and was contested by Easton
| John Scott
John Scott (Missouri politician)
John Scott was a Delegate and a U.S. Representative from Missouri.Born in Hanover County, Virginia, Scott moved with his parents to Indiana Territory in 1802.He was graduated from Princeton College in 1805.He studied law....


| December 2, 1816
|-
|
| Benjamin Stephenson
Benjamin Stephenson
Benjamin Stephenson was born in Pennsylvania on July 8, 1769. He moved to Virginia in 1788, and then to the Illinois Territory. He became sheriff of Randolph County, Illinois in 1809....


| style="font-size:80%" | Term ended September 3, 1816
| Nathaniel Pope
Nathaniel Pope
Nathaniel Pope was a politician and jurist from the U.S. state of Illinois.-Early life, education, and career:...


| December 2, 1816
|-
|
| | John Clopton
John Clopton
John Clopton was a United States Representative from Virginia. Born in St. Peter's Parish , his father was William Clopton and his mother was Elizabeth Dorrell Ford , he graduated from the College of Philadelphia in 1776...

 (DR)
| style="font-size:80%" | Died September 11, 1816
| | John Tyler
John Tyler
John Tyler was the tenth President of the United States . A native of Virginia, Tyler served as a state legislator, governor, U.S. representative, and U.S. senator before being elected Vice President . He was the first to succeed to the office of President following the death of a predecessor...

 (DR)
| December 17, 1816
|-
|
| | William Mayrant
William Mayrant
William Mayrant was a U.S. Representative from South Carolina.William Mayrant was elected in 1814 as a Democratic-Republican to the Fourteenth Congress and served until his resignation on October 21, 1816...

 (DR)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned October 21, 1816
| | Stephen D. Miller
Stephen Decatur Miller
Stephen Decatur Miller was an American politician, who served as the 52nd Governor of South Carolina from 1828 to 1830. He represented South Carolina as a U.S. Representative from 1817 to 1819, and as a U.S. Senator from 1831 to 1833.He was born in Waxhaw settlement, South Carolina and graduated...

 (DR)
| January 2, 1817
|-
|
| | William R. King
William R. King
William Rufus DeVane King was the 13th Vice President of the United States for about six weeks , and earlier a U.S. Representative from North Carolina, Minister to France, and a Senator from Alabama...

 (DR)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned November 4, 1816
| | Charles Hooks
Charles Hooks
Charles Hooks was a United States Representative from North Carolina; born in Bertie County, North Carolina, February 20, 1768; when he was two years old his parents moved to Duplin County, North Carolina and settled on a plantation near Kenansville; became a planter; member of the State house of...

 (DR)
| December 2, 1816
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| | Alfred Cuthbert
Alfred Cuthbert
Alfred Cuthbert was a United States Representative and Senator from Georgia.-Biography:Cuthbert was born in Savannah, he was instructed by private tutors and graduated from Princeton College in 1803...

 (DR)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned November 9, 1816
| | Zadock Cook
Zadock Cook
Zadock Cook was a United States Representative from Georgia.-Biography:He was born in Virginia and moved to Hancock County, Georgia in early life. He was one of the first white settlers in Clarke County, Georgia. He was self-educated...

 (DR)
| January 23, 1817
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| rowspan=2 | Jonathan Jennings
Jonathan Jennings
Jonathan Jennings was the first Governor of Indiana and a nine-term congressman from Indiana. Born in Readington, New Jersey, he studied law with his brother before immigrating to Indiana in 1806 where he took part in land speculation...

 (Territorial delegate)
| rowspan=2 style="font-size:80%" | Indiana was admitted to the Union on December 11, 1816
| rowspan=2 | William Hendricks
William Hendricks
William Hendricks was a Democratic-Republican member of the House of Representatives from 1816 to 1822, the third Governor of Indiana from 1822 to 1825, and an Anti-Jacksonian member of the U.S. Senate from 1825 to 1837. He led much of his family into politics and founded one of the largest...

 (DR)
| rowspan=2 | December 11, 1816
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| John Scott
John Scott (Missouri politician)
John Scott was a Delegate and a U.S. Representative from Missouri.Born in Hanover County, Virginia, Scott moved with his parents to Indiana Territory in 1802.He was graduated from Princeton College in 1805.He studied law....


| style="font-size:80%" | His election was contested by his predecessor Easton. On January 13, 1817, the election was declared illegal, but the seat was declared vacant.
| colspan=2 | Vacant until next Congress
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Senate

  • Chaplain
    Chaplain of the United States Senate
    The Chaplain of the United States Senate opens each session of the United States Senate with a prayer, and provides and coordinates religious programs and pastoral care support for Senators, their staffs, and their families. The Chaplain is appointed by a majority vote of the members of the Senate...

    :
    • John Glendie, Presbyterian
      Presbyterianism
      Presbyterianism refers to a number of Christian churches adhering to the Calvinist theological tradition within Protestantism, which are organized according to a characteristic Presbyterian polity. Presbyterian theology typically emphasizes the sovereignty of God, the authority of the Scriptures,...

    • Sereno Edwards Dwight
      Sereno Edwards Dwight
      Sereno Edwards Dwight was an American author, educator, and Congregationalist minister, who served as Chaplain of the Senate.- Early years:...

      , Congregationalist
      Congregational church
      Congregational churches are Protestant Christian churches practicing Congregationalist church governance, in which each congregation independently and autonomously runs its own affairs....

      , elected December 16, 1816
  • Secretary
    Secretary of the United States Senate
    The Secretary of the Senate is an elected officer of the United States Senate. The Secretary supervises an extensive array of offices and services to expedite the day-to-day operations of that body...

    : Charles Cutts
    Charles Cutts
    Charles Cutts was a United States Senator from New Hampshire. Born in Portsmouth, he graduated from Harvard University in 1789, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1795, and practiced...

  • Sergeant at Arms
    Sergeant at Arms of the United States Senate
    The Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate is the law enforcer for the United States Senate. One of the chief roles of the Sergeant is to hold the gavel used at every session...

    : Mountjoy Bayly

House of Representatives

  • Chaplain
    Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives
    The election of William Linn as Chaplain of the House on May 1, 1789, continued the tradition established by the Continental Congresses of each day's proceedings opening with a prayer by a chaplain. The early Chaplains alternated duties with their Senate counterparts on a weekly basis, covering the...

    • Spencer H. Cone, Baptist
      Baptist
      Baptists comprise a group of Christian denominations and churches that subscribe to a doctrine that baptism should be performed only for professing believers , and that it must be done by immersion...

    • Burgess Allison, Baptist
      Baptist
      Baptists comprise a group of Christian denominations and churches that subscribe to a doctrine that baptism should be performed only for professing believers , and that it must be done by immersion...

      , elected December 2, 1816
  • Clerk
    Clerk of the United States House of Representatives
    The Clerk of the United States House of Representatives is an officer of the United States House of Representatives, whose primary duty is to act as the chief record-keeper for the House....

    : Thomas Dougherty
    Thomas Dougherty
    Thomas Dougherty is an American diplomat. He is the current United States Ambassador to Burkina Faso.-Biography:Thomas Dougherty is from Casper, Wyoming. He graduated from Brown University and joined the U.S. Foreign Service in 1989. He was nominated to be the ambassador to Burkina Faso by...

  • Doorkeeper
    Doorkeeper of the United States House of Representatives
    An appointed officer of the United States House of Representatives from 1789 to 1995, the Doorkeeper of the United States House of Representatives was chosen by a resolution at the opening of each United States Congress. The Office of the Doorkeeper was based on precedent from the Continental...

    : Thomas Claxton
  • Sergeant at Arms
    Sergeant at Arms of the United States House of Representatives
    The United States House of Representatives Sergeant at Arms is an officer of the House with law enforcement, protocol, and administrative responsibilities. The Sergeant at Arms is elected at the beginning of each Congress by the membership of the chamber...

    : Thomas Dunn

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