3rd United States Congress - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The Third United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate

United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of the United States, and together with the United States House of Representatives comprises the United States Congress. The composition and powers of the Senate are established in Article One of the U.S. Constitution. Each...

and the United States House of Representatives

United States House of Representatives

The United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...

. It met at Congress Hall in Philadelphia

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Philadelphia County, with which it is coterminous. The city is located in the Northeastern United States along the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. It is the fifth-most-populous city in the United States,...

Pennsylvania

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...

from March 4, 1793 to March 3, 1795, during the fifth and sixth years of George Washington

George Washington

George Washington was the dominant military and political leader of the new United States of America from 1775 to 1799. He led the American victory over Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army from 1775 to 1783, and presided over the writing of...

's Presidency

President of the United States

The President of the United States of America is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces....

.

The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives

United States House of Representatives

was based on the First Census of the United States in 1790

United States Census, 1790

The United States Census of 1790 was the first census conducted in the United States. It recorded the population of the United States as of Census Day, August 2, 1790, as mandated by Article I, Section 2 of the United States Constitution and applicable laws...

. The Senate had a Pro-Administration

Pro-Administration Party (United States)

Pro-Administration "Party" is a term by historians to describe the supporters of the policies of George Washington's administration — especially Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton's financial policies — prior to the formation of the Federalist and Democratic-Republican Parties.Almost the entire...

majority, and the House had an Anti-Administration

Anti-Administration Party (United States)

Anti-Administration "Party" was the informal faction comprising the opponents of the policies of Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton in the first term of President George Washington. This was not an organized political party but an unorganized faction...

majority.

Major events

April 22, 1793: George Washington
George Washington
George Washington was the dominant military and political leader of the new United States of America from 1775 to 1799. He led the American victory over Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army from 1775 to 1783, and presided over the writing of...

signed the Neutrality Proclamation
March 14, 1794: Eli Whitney
Eli Whitney
Eli Whitney was an American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin. This was one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution and shaped the economy of the Antebellum South...

was granted a patent
Patent
A patent is a form of intellectual property. It consists of a set of exclusive rights granted by a sovereign state to an inventor or their assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for the public disclosure of an invention....

for the cotton gin
Cotton gin
A cotton gin is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, a job formerly performed painstakingly by hand...
March 27, 1794: The federal government
Federal government of the United States
The federal government of the United States is the national government of the constitutional republic of fifty states that is the United States of America. The federal government comprises three distinct branches of government: a legislative, an executive and a judiciary. These branches and...

authorized the construction of the original six frigates of the United States Navy
August 7, 1794: Whiskey Rebellion
Whiskey Rebellion
The Whiskey Rebellion, or Whiskey Insurrection, was a tax protest in the United States in the 1790s, during the presidency of George Washington. Farmers who sold their corn in the form of whiskey had to pay a new tax which they strongly resented...

began: Farmers in the Monongahela Valley
Monongahela River
The Monongahela River is a river on the Allegheny Plateau in north-central West Virginia and southwestern Pennsylvania in the United States...

of Pennsylvania rebelled against the federal tax on liquor and distilled drinks.
August 20, 1794: Battle of Fallen Timbers
Battle of Fallen Timbers
The Battle of Fallen Timbers was the final battle of the Northwest Indian War, a struggle between American Indian tribes affiliated with the Western Confederacy and the United States for control of the Northwest Territory...

— American troops forced a confederacy of Shawnee
Shawnee
The Shawnee, Shaawanwaki, Shaawanooki and Shaawanowi lenaweeki, are an Algonquian-speaking people native to North America. Historically they inhabited the areas of Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia, Western Maryland, Kentucky, Indiana, and Pennsylvania...

, Mingo
Mingo
The Mingo are an Iroquoian group of Native Americans made up of peoples who migrated west to the Ohio Country in the mid-eighteenth century. Anglo-Americans called these migrants mingos, a corruption of mingwe, an Eastern Algonquian name for Iroquoian-language groups in general. Mingos have also...

, Delaware
Lenape
The Lenape are an Algonquian group of Native Americans of the Northeastern Woodlands. They are also called Delaware Indians. As a result of the American Revolutionary War and later Indian removals from the eastern United States, today the main groups live in Canada, where they are enrolled in the...

, Wyandot, Miami
Miami tribe
The Miami are a Native American nation originally found in what is now Indiana, southwest Michigan, and western Ohio. The Miami Tribe of Oklahoma is the only federally recognized tribe of Miami Indians in the United States...

, Ottawa
Ottawa (tribe)
The Odawa or Ottawa, said to mean "traders," are a Native American and First Nations people. They are one of the Anishinaabeg, related to but distinct from the Ojibwe nation. Their original homelands are located on Manitoulin Island, near the northern shores of Lake Huron, on the Bruce Peninsula in...

, Chippewa and Pottawatomie warriors into a disorganized retreat.

Major legislation

March 27, 1794: Naval Act of 1794
Naval Act of 1794
The Act to Provide a Naval Armament, also known as the Naval Act, was passed by the United States Congress on March 27, 1794 and established the country's first naval force, which eventually became the United States Navy...

, Sess. 1, ch. 12,
January 29, 1795: Naturalization Act of 1795
Naturalization Act of 1795
The United States Naturalization Act of January 29, 1795 repealed and replaced the Naturalization Act of 1790. The 1795 Act differed from the 1790 Act by increasing the period of required residence from two to five years in the United States, by introducing the Declaration of Intention...

, Sess. 2, ch. 20,

Constitutional amendments

March 4, 1794: The 11th Amendment to the United States Constitution was passed by Congress.
February 7, 1795: The 11th Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified by the states, clarifying judicial power over foreign nationals, and limiting the ability of citizens to sue states in federal courts and under federal law.

Treaties

November 19, 1794: The United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain
Kingdom of Great Britain
The former Kingdom of Great Britain, sometimes described as the 'United Kingdom of Great Britain', That the Two Kingdoms of Scotland and England, shall upon the 1st May next ensuing the date hereof, and forever after, be United into One Kingdom by the Name of GREAT BRITAIN. was a sovereign...

signed the Jay Treaty
Jay Treaty
Jay's Treaty, , also known as Jay's Treaty, The British Treaty, and the Treaty of London of 1794, was a treaty between the United States and Great Britain that is credited with averting war,, resolving issues remaining since the Treaty of Paris of 1783, which ended the American Revolution,, and...

, which attempted to clear up some of the lingering problems left over from the American Revolutionary War
American Revolutionary War
The American Revolutionary War , the American War of Independence, or simply the Revolutionary War, began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen British colonies in North America, and ended in a global war between several European great powers.The war was the result of the...

Party summary

There were no political parties in this Congress. Members are informally grouped into factions of similar interest, based on an analysis of their voting record.

Details on changes are shown below in the "Changes in membership" section.

Senate

House of Representatives

Senate

President: John Adams
John Adams
John Adams was an American lawyer, statesman, diplomat and political theorist. A leading champion of independence in 1776, he was the second President of the United States...

, (P)
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 Langdon
  John Langdon
  John Langdon was a politician from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and one of the first two United States senators from that state. Langdon was an early supporter of the Revolutionary War and later served in the Continental Congress...
  
  , (P), first elected March 4, 1793
- Ralph Izard
  Ralph Izard
  Ralph Izard was a U.S. politician. He served as President pro tempore of the United States Senate in 1794.-Early life:...
  
  , (P), first elected May 31, 1794
- Henry Tazewell
  Henry Tazewell
  Henry Tazewell was an American politician who was instrumental in the early government of the U.S. state of Virginia. He was born in Brunswick County, Virginia. He served as the President pro tempore of the United States Senate in 1795.He was the father of Littleton Tazewell...
  
  , (P), first elected February 20, 1795

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...

: Frederick Muhlenberg
Frederick Muhlenberg
Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg was an American minister and politician who was the first Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. A delegate and a member of the U.S...

(A)

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 in the last Congress, requiring reelection in 1796; Class 2 meant their term began in this Congress, requiring reelection in 1798; and Class 3 meant their term ended with this Congress, requiring reelection in 1794.

Connecticut

1. Oliver Ellsworth
Oliver Ellsworth
Oliver Ellsworth was an American lawyer and politician, a revolutionary against British rule, a drafter of the United States Constitution, and the third Chief Justice of the United States. While at the Federal Convention, Ellsworth moved to strike the word National from the motion made by Edmund...

(P)
3. Roger Sherman
Roger Sherman
Roger Sherman was an early American lawyer and politician, as well as a founding father. He served as the first mayor of New Haven, Connecticut, and served on the Committee of Five that drafted the Declaration of Independence, and was also a representative and senator in the new republic...

(P), until July 23, 1793
- Stephen Mitchell
  Stephen Mix Mitchell
  Stephen Mix Mitchell was an American lawyer, jurist, and statesman from Wethersfield, Connecticut. He represented Connecticut in the Continental Congress and the U.S. Senate and was chief justice of the state's Supreme Court.When Roger Sherman died in 1793, Governor Huntington appointed him to the...
  
  (P), from December 2, 1793

Delaware

1. George Read
George Read (signer)
George Read was an American lawyer and politician from New Castle in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, a Continental Congressman from Delaware, a delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787, President of Delaware, and a member of the...

(P), until September 18, 1793
- Henry Latimer
  Henry Latimer (senator)
  Dr. Henry Latimer was an American physician and politician from Newport, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was elected to the Continental Congress from Delaware, and was a member of the Federalist Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly, as U.S. Representative from Delaware, and U.S...
  
  (P), from February 7, 1795
2. John Vining
John M. Vining
John Middleton "Jack" Vining was an American lawyer and politician from Dover, in Kent County, Delaware. He was a Continental Congressman from Delaware, and a member of the Federalist Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly and as U.S. Representative and U.S...

(P)

Georgia

3. James Gunn
James Gunn (senator)
James Gunn was a delegate to the Continental Congress and United States Senate for Georgia.Gunn was born in Virginia to John and Mary Gunn. After being educated to the law, he moved and began the practice of law in Savannah, Georgia...

(A)
2. James Jackson
James Jackson (politician)
James "Left Eye" Jackson was an early Georgia politician of the Democratic-Republican Party. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1789 until 1791. He was also a U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1793 to 1795, and from 1801 until his death...

(A)

Kentucky

3. John Edwards
John Edwards (Kentucky)
John Edwards was an American planter and statesman who player a key role in securing Kentucky statehood, and represented the new state in the United States Senate....

(A)
2. John Brown
John Brown (Kentucky)
John Brown was an American lawyer and statesman heavily involved with creating the State of Kentucky.Brown represented Virginia in the Continental Congress and the U.S. Congress . While in Congress, he introduced the bill granting Statehood to Kentucky. Once that was accomplished, he was elected...

(A)

New Jersey

1. John Rutherfurd
John Rutherfurd
John Rutherfurd was an American politician and land surveyor.John Rutherfurd was born in New York City. His parents were Walter and Mary Rutherfurd. Walter was a veteran of the British Army, and was a hostage of Patriots during the Revolutionary War while John was a teenager. Walter died in 1804...

(P)
2. Frederick Frelinghuysen
Frederick Frelinghuysen (1753–1804)
Frederick Frelinghuysen was an American lawyer, soldier, and senator from New Jersey. A graduate of the College of New Jersey , Frederick went on to become an officer during the American Revolutionary War. In addition, he was and served as a delegate to the Continental Congress...

(P)

Pennsylvania

3. Robert Morris
Robert Morris (merchant)
Robert Morris, Jr. was a British-born American merchant, and signer of the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the United States Constitution...

(P)
1. Vacant until December 2, 1793
- Albert Gallatin
  Albert Gallatin
  Abraham Alfonse Albert Gallatin was a Swiss-American ethnologist, linguist, politician, diplomat, congressman, and the longest-serving United States Secretary of the Treasury. In 1831, he founded the University of the City of New York...
  
  (A), December 2, 1793 – February 28, 1794
- James Ross (P), from April 24, 1794

Rhode Island

1. Theodore Foster
Theodore Foster
Theodore Foster was an American politician. He was a member of the Federalist Party and later the National Republican Party. He served as one of the first two United States Senators from Rhode Island and, following John Langdon, served as dean of the Senate...

(P)
2. William Bradford
William Bradford (1729-1808)
William Bradford was a physician, lawyer, and United States Senator from Rhode Island. He was born at Plympton, Massachusetts to Lt. Samuel Bradford and Sarah Gray, and was the great-great-grandson of the William Bradford who had been Governor of the Plymouth Colony...

(P)

Virginia

1. James Monroe
James Monroe
James Monroe was the fifth President of the United States . Monroe was the last president who was a Founding Father of the United States, and the last president from the Virginia dynasty and the Republican Generation...

(A), until May 11, 1794
- Stevens Mason
  Stevens Thomson Mason (Virginia)
  Stevens Thomson Mason was a Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, a member of the Virginia state legislature and a Republican U.S. Senator from Virginia .-Early life and military career:...
  
  (A), from November 18, 1794
2. John Taylor
John Taylor of Caroline
John Taylor usually called John Taylor of Caroline was a politician and writer. He served in the Virginia House of Delegates and in the United States Senate . He wrote several books on politics and agriculture...

(A), until May 11, 1794
- Henry Tazewell
  Henry Tazewell
  Henry Tazewell was an American politician who was instrumental in the early government of the U.S. state of Virginia. He was born in Brunswick County, Virginia. He served as the President pro tempore of the United States Senate in 1795.He was the father of Littleton Tazewell...
  
  (A), from November 18, 1794

House of Representatives

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

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...

.. Joshua Coit

Joshua Coit

Joshua Coit was an American lawyer and politician from New London, Connecticut. He attended the common schools and graduated from Harvard College in 1776. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in New London. He served in the Connecticut House of Representatives, serving...

(P). James Hillhouse

James Hillhouse

James Hillhouse was an American lawyer, real estate developer, and politician from New Haven, Connecticut. He represented Connecticut in both the U.S. House and Senate...

(P). Amasa Learned

Amasa Learned

Amasa Learned was an American preacher, lawyer, and politician from New London, Connecticut. He served in the state's House of Representatives and represented Connecticut in the U.S. House from 1791 until 1795....

(P). Zephaniah Swift

Zephaniah Swift

Zephaniah Swift was an American jurist, author, and politician from Windham, Connecticut. He was born in Wareham, Massachusetts and moved with his parents to Lebanon, Connecticut. He completed preparatory studies and graduated from Yale College in 1778...

(P). Uriah Tracy

Uriah Tracy

Uriah Tracy was an American politician from Connecticut who served in both the House of Representatives and the Senate....

(P). Jonathan Trumbull, Jr.

Jonathan Trumbull, Jr.

Jonathan Trumbull, Jr. was an American politician who served as the second Speaker of the United States House of Representatives....

(P). Jeremiah Wadsworth

Jeremiah Wadsworth

Jeremiah Wadsworth was an American sea captain, merchant, and statesman from Hartford, Connecticut who profited from his position as a government official charged with supplying the Continental Army...

(P)

Delaware

. John Patten

John Patten (representative)

Major John Patten was an American farmer and politician from Dover, in Kent County, Delaware. He was an officer of the Continental Army in the American Revolution, a Continental Congressman, and a member of the Democratic-Republican Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly and as U.S...

(A), until February 14, 1794

- Henry Latimer
  Henry Latimer (senator)
  Dr. Henry Latimer was an American physician and politician from Newport, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was elected to the Continental Congress from Delaware, and was a member of the Federalist Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly, as U.S. Representative from Delaware, and U.S...
  
  (P), February 14, 1794 – February 7, 1795
- Vacant thereafter

Georgia

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...

,. Abraham Baldwin

Abraham Baldwin

Abraham Baldwin was an American politician, Patriot, and Founding Father from the U.S. state of Georgia. Baldwin was a Georgia representative in the Continental Congress and served in the United States House of Representatives and Senate after the adoption of the Constitution.-Minister:After...

(A). Thomas P. Carnes

Thomas P. Carnes

Thomas Petters Carnes served as a colonel in the Maryland Line during the American Revolution and received bounty land in Franklin County, GA for his service. He was an American lawyer and politician from Franklin County, Georgia...

(A)

Maryland

. George Dent

George Dent

George Dent was an American planter and politician from Maryland who served in the House of Representatives from 1793 to 1801.-Early Life:...

(P). John Mercer

John Francis Mercer

John Francis Mercer was an American lawyer, planter, and politician from Virginia and Maryland. Born in 1759 in Marlborough, Stafford County, Virginia, to John Mercer and Ann Roy Mercer, he graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1775 and was a delegate for Virginia to the Continental...

(A), until April 13, 1794

- Gabriel Duvall
  Gabriel Duvall
  Gabriel Duvall was an American politician and jurist.-Career:Born in Prince George's County, Maryland, Duvall read law to enter the Bar in 1778. He married Florence Adams Washburne , the daughter of General Henry Gilman Washburne and Florence Adams Washburne, on 1778...
  
  (A), from November 11, 1794. Uriah Forrest
  Uriah Forrest
  Uriah Forrest was an American statesman and military leader from Maryland. Forrest was born in St. Mary's County in southern Maryland. During the American Revolutionary War, Forrest was injured and lost a leg in the Battle of Germantown...
  
  (P), until November 8, 1794
- Benjamin Edwards
  Benjamin Edwards (Maryland)
  Benjamin Edwards was an American merchant and political leader from Montgomery County, Maryland. He represented the third district of Maryland for a very short time in the United States House of Representatives in 1795 after Uriah Forrest resigned.Benjamin's son, Ninian Edwards, would later serve...
  
  (P), from January 2, 1795. Thomas Sprigg
  Thomas Sprigg
  Thomas Sprigg was an 18th century American politician. He represented the fourth district of Maryland in the United States House of Representatives from 1793 to 1797....
  
  (A). 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:...
  
  (A). Gabriel Christie
  Gabriel Christie (Maryland)
  Gabriel Christie was an American political leader from Perryman, Maryland.He was born in Perryman. He served in the Maryland militia during the American Revolution...
  
  (A). William Hindman
  William Hindman
  William Hindman was an American lawyer and statesman from Talbot County, Maryland. He represented Maryland in the Continental Congress, and in the federal Congress as both a Representative from the second and seventh districts, and as a U.S...
  
  (P). William Vans Murray
  William Vans Murray
  William Vans Murray was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman. He served in the Maryland House of Delegates . He next was elected to the US House of Representatives from the fifth district of Maryland, serving from 1791 until 1793. He then represented the eighth district from 1793 to...
  
  (P)

Massachusetts

There was a single at-large seat along with four plural districts, each of which had multiple representatives elected at-large 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...

.. Fisher Ames

Fisher Ames

Fisher Ames was a Representative in the United States Congress from the 1st Congressional District of Massachusetts.-Life and political career:...

(P). Samuel Dexter

Samuel Dexter

Samuel Dexter was an early American statesman who served both in Congress and in the Presidential Cabinet.-Life:Born in Boston, Massachusetts, to the Rev. Samuel Dexter, the 4th minister of Dedham, he graduated from Harvard University in 1781 and then studied law at Worcester under Levi Lincoln,...

(P). Benjamin Goodhue

Benjamin Goodhue

Benjamin Goodhue was a Representative and a Senator from Massachusetts.Goodhue was born in Salem, Massachusetts and graduated from Harvard College in 1766. He worked as a merchant and became a member of the State house of representatives 1780-1782 and later a State senator in 1783 and 1786-1788...

(P). Samuel Holten

Samuel Holten

Samuel Holten was an American physician and statesman from Danvers, Massachusetts. He represented Massachusetts as a delegate to the Continental Congress and as a Congressman in the U.S. House.-External links:...

(A). Dwight Foster

Dwight Foster (Massachusetts)

Dwight Foster was an American lawyer and politician from Brookfield, Massachusetts. He graduated from the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations at Providence in 1774.He served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and represented Massachusetts in both...

(P). William Lyman

William Lyman (congressman)

William Lyman was an American politician from Northampton, Massachusetts. Lyman was born in Northampton, Massachusetts to Captain William and Jemima Lyman. Lyman attended Yale College, graduating in 1776....

(A). Theodore Sedgwick

Theodore Sedgwick

Theodore Sedgwick was an attorney, politician and jurist, who served in elected state government and as a Delegate to the Continental Congress, a US Representative, and a United States Senator from Massachusetts. He served as the fifth Speaker of the United States House of Representatives...

(P). Artemas Ward

Artemas Ward

Artemas Ward was an American major general in the American Revolutionary War and a Congressman from Massachusetts...

(P). Shearjashub Bourne

Shearjashub Bourne

Shearjashub Bourne was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician from Boston, Massachusetts. He served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and represented Massachusetts in the United States House of Representatives from March 4, 1791 to March 3, 1795...

(P). Peleg Coffin, Jr.

Peleg Coffin, Jr.

Peleg Coffin, Jr. was an American financier, insurer, and politician from Boston, Massachusetts. He served in both houses of the state legislature...

(P). Henry Dearborn

Henry Dearborn

Henry Dearborn was an American physician, a statesman and a veteran of both the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. Born to Simon Dearborn and Sarah Marston in North Hampton, New Hampshire, he spent much of his youth in Epping, where he attended public schools...

(A). George Thatcher

George Thatcher

George Thatcher was an American lawyer, jurist, and statesman from the Maine district of Massachusetts. His name sometimes appears as George Thacher. He was a delegate for Massachusetts to the Continental Congress in 1787 and 1788...

(P). Peleg Wadsworth

Peleg Wadsworth

Peleg Wadsworth was an American officer during the American Revolutionary War and a Congressman from Massachusetts representing the District of Maine. He was also grandfather of noted American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.Wadsworth was born in Duxbury, Massachusetts, to Peleg and Susanna ...

(P). David Cobb

David Cobb (Massachusetts)

David Cobb was a Massachusetts physician, military officer, jurist, and politician who served as a U.S. Congressman for the At-large District of Massachusetts.-Biography:...

(P)

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...

.. Nicholas Gilman

Nicholas Gilman

Nicholas Gilman, Jr. was a soldier in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, a delegate to the Continental Congress, and a signer of the U.S. Constitution, representing New Hampshire. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives during the first four...

(P). John Sherburne

John Samuel Sherburne

John Samuel Sherburne was a lawyer, politician, and United States federal judge from Portsmouth, New Hampshire.Born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Sherburne graduated from Dartmouth College in 1776 and attended the law department of Harvard University. He read law to be admitted to the bar and...

(A). Jeremiah Smith

Jeremiah Smith

Jeremiah Smith was an American lawyer, jurist and politician from Exeter, New Hampshire.Born in Peterborough, New Hampshire, Smith attended Harvard University before graduating from Queens College, New Brunswick in 1780. He served in the Continental Army, and read law to enter the bar in 1786...

(P). Paine Wingate

Paine Wingate

Paine Wingate was an American preacher, farmer, and statesman from Stratham, New Hampshire. He served New Hampshire in the Continental Congress and both the United States Senate and House of Representatives....

(P)

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...

.. John Beatty

John Beatty (delegate)

John Beatty was an American physician and statesman from Princeton, New Jersey.-Biography:Born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, he rose to the rank of major in the 6th Pennsylvania Regiment of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He was captured at the surrender of Fort...

(P). Elias Boudinot

Elias Boudinot

Elias Boudinot was a lawyer and statesman from Elizabeth, New Jersey who was a delegate to the Continental Congress and a U.S. Congressman for New Jersey...

(P). Lambert Cadwalader

Lambert Cadwalader

Lambert Cadwalader was an American merchant and leader in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. He fought in the Revolutionary War, then represented New Jersey in the Continental Congress and the U.S. Congress.-Early life:...

(P). Abraham Clark

Abraham Clark

Abraham Clark was an American politician and Revolutionary War figure. He was delegate for New Jersey to the Continental Congress where he signed the Declaration of Independence and later served in the United States House of Representatives in both the Second and Third United States Congress, from...

(P), until September 15, 1794

- Aaron Kitchell
  Aaron Kitchell
  Aaron Kitchell was a blacksmith and politician from Hanover Township, New Jersey. He represented New Jersey in both the United States House of Representatives and the Senate....
  
  (P), from January 29, 1795. Jonathan Dayton
  Jonathan Dayton
  Jonathan Dayton was an American politician from the U.S. state of New Jersey. He was the youngest person to sign the United States Constitution and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, serving as the fourth Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, and later the U.S. Senate...
  
  (P)

New York

. Thomas Tredwell

Thomas Tredwell

Thomas Tredwell was an American lawyer and politician from Plattsburg, New York. He served in the New York State Senate and represented New York in the United States House of Representatives from 1791 to 1795....

(A). John Watts (P). Philip Van Cortlandt

Philip Van Cortlandt

Philip Van Cortlandt was an American surveyor, landowner, and politician from Westchester County, New York.During the Revolutionary War, Colonel Cortlandt commanded the 2nd New York Regiment in the Continental Army...

(A). Peter Van Gaasbeck

Peter Van Gaasbeck

Peter Van Gaasbeck was an American merchant and politician from Kingston, New York. During the Revolutionary War he served as a Major in the Ulster County militia. Van Gaasbeck represented New York in the United States House of Representatives from 1793 to 1795.-External links:...

(P). Theodorus Bailey

Theodorus Bailey (senator)

Theodorus Bailey was an American lawyer and politician from Poughkeepsie, New York. He represented New York in both the U.S. House and Senate...

(A). Ezekiel Gilbert

Ezekiel Gilbert

Ezekiel Gilbert was an American lawyer and politician from Hudson, New York. He served in the state Assembly and represented New York in the United States House of Representatives from 1793 until 1797....

(P). John E. Van Alen

John E. Van Alen

John Evert Van Alen was an American surveyor, merchant, and politician from Rensselaer County, New York.He was born in Kinderhook, Columbia County, New York. He served in the state Assembly and represented New York in the United States House of Representatives from 1793 until 1799...

(P). Henry Glen

Henry Glen

Henry Glen was an American merchant, county clerk, and politician from Schenectady, New York. He served in the state Assembly and represented New York in the United States House of Representatives from 1793 until 1801....

(P). James Gordon

James Gordon (New York)

James Gordon was an Irish-born American merchant, soldier, and politician.He was born in Killead, County Antrim, Ireland, and left in 1758, settling in Schenectady, New York. From that base and from Detroit, Michigan, he traded with various Native American tribes...

(P). Silas Talbot

Silas Talbot

Silas Talbot was an officer in the Continental Army and in the Continental Navy. Talbot is most famous for commanding the USS Constitution from 1798 to 1801.-Biography:...

(P), until June 5, 1794

- vacant until March 3, 1795

North Carolina

. Joseph McDowell

Joseph McDowell (General)

Joseph "Pleasant Gardens" McDowell was an American lawyer, soldier, and statesman from Morganton, North Carolina....

(A). Matthew Locke

Matthew Locke (U.S. Congress)

Matthew Locke . Father was John Locke and his wife Elizabeth . Elizabeth's maiden name may have been Witingham or Whittingham Elizabeth died August 10, 1760 in Rowan County, North Carolina and was buried at Thyatira Cememtery. Was a U.S...

(A). Joseph Winston

Joseph Winston

Col. Joseph Winston was an American pioneer, planter and Revolutionary War hero from North Carolina, and the first cousin of statesman and Virginia governor Patrick Henry...

(A). Alexander Mebane

Alexander Mebane

Alexander Mebane, Jr. was a U.S. Congressman from the state of North Carolina from 1793 to 1795. He was also a brigadier general in the North Carolina militia during the Revolutionary War....

(A). 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...

(A). James Gillespie

James Gillespie

James Gillespie was a Democratic-Republican U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1793 and 1799....

(A). William Barry Grove

William Barry Grove

William Barry Grove was a Federalist U.S. Congressman from the state of North Carolina from 1791 to 1803.Grove was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina in 1764. After studying law, he was admitted to the state bar and became a practicing attorney...

(P). William Johnston Dawson (A). Thomas Blount (A). Benjamin Williams

Benjamin Williams

Benjamin Williams was the 11th and 14th Governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina, from 1799 to 1802 and from 1807 to 1808. He was the first of two North Carolina Governors since the American Revolution to serve nonconsecutive terms.Williams was born in Johnston County, North Carolina in 1751...

(A)

Pennsylvania

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...

.. James Armstrong

James Armstrong (Pennsylvania)

James Armstrong was an American physician and politician.Armstrong was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, the son of Brigadier General John Armstrong and the brother of John Armstrong, Jr., who became the U.S. Secretary of War...

(P). 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...

(A). Thomas Fitzsimons

Thomas Fitzsimons

Thomas FitzSimons was an American merchant and statesman of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He represented Pennsylvania in the Continental Congress, the Constitutional Convention, and the U.S. Congress.-Biography:...

(P). Andrew Gregg (A). Thomas Hartley

Thomas Hartley

Thomas Hartley was an American lawyer, soldier, and politician from York, Pennsylvania.He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania and practiced law in York...

(P). Daniel Hiester

Daniel Hiester

Daniel Hiester was an American political and military leader from the Revolutionary War period to the early 19th Century. Born in Berks County, Pennsylvania, he was a member of the Hiester Family political dynasty. He was the brother of John Hiester and Gabriel Hiester, cousin of Joseph Hiester,...

(A). William Irvine

William Irvine (physician)

William Irvine was an Irish-American physician, soldier, and statesman from Carlisle, Pennsylvania.Irvine was born near Enniskillen, County Fermanagh in Ireland...

(A). John Wilkes Kittera

John W. Kittera

John Wilkes Kittera was an American lawyer and politician from Lancaster, Pennsylvania.Kittera was born near Blue Ball, Pennsylvania. He was appointed by President John Adams as United States attorney for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania...

(P). William Montgomery

William Montgomery (Pennsylvania)

William Montgomery was an American jurist and politician from Chester County, Pennsylvania. He represented Pennsylvania in the United States House of Representatives from 1793 until 1795....

(A). Frederick A. C. Muhlenberg

Frederick Muhlenberg

Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg was an American minister and politician who was the first Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. A delegate and a member of the U.S...

(A). John Peter G. Muhlenberg

Peter Muhlenberg

John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg was an American clergyman, Continental Army soldier during the American Revolutionary War, and political figure in the newly-independent United States...

(A). Thomas Scott

Thomas Scott (politician)

Thomas Scott was an American lawyer and politician who was born in Chester County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.As he grew up and matured, he opted law as his subject of study which led to his role in the fledgling United States...

(P). John Smilie

John Smilie

John Smilie was an American politician from Fayette, Pennsylvania.He served in both houses of the state legislature and represented Pennsylvania in the U.S. House from 1793 until 1795 and from 1799 to 1812. Smilie was a prominent Jeffersonian, and was identified with the "'Quid" branch of the party...

(A)

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...

.. Benjamin Bourne

Benjamin Bourne

Benjamin Bourne was an American jurist and politician from Bristol, Rhode Island. He represented Rhode Island in the U.S. House of Representatives and served as a judge in both the federal district and federal appellate courts.Borurne was born in Bristol and graduated from Harvard College in 1775...

(P). Francis Malbone

Francis Malbone

Francis Malbone was an American merchant from Newport, Rhode Island. He represented Rhode Island in the U.S. House from 1793 until 1797 and served briefly in the United States Senate in 1809....

(P)

South Carolina

. William L. Smith

William Loughton Smith

William Loughton Smith was an American lawyer from Charleston, South Carolina. He represented South Carolina in the U.S. House from 1789 until 1797 and served as the U.S...

(P). John Hunter

John Hunter (South Carolina)

John Hunter was an American farmer from Newberry, South Carolina. He represented South Carolina in the U.S. House from 1793 until 1795 and in the United States Senate from 1796 to 1798.-External links:...

(A). Lemuel Benton

Lemuel Benton

Lemuel Benton was an American planter and politician from Darlington County, South Carolina. He represented South Carolina in the U.S. House from 1793 until 1799. Colonel Benton resided on Stoney Hill Farm, located in Darlington county near Mechanicsville, SC. Stoney Hill is currently owned by...

(A). Richard Winn

Richard Winn

Richard Winn was an American merchant, surveyor, and politician from Winnsboro, South Carolina. During the American Revolutionary War he was an officer in the 3rd South Carolina Regiment. After the regiment was captured at Charleston, he served in a militia partisan unit under Thomas Sumter...

(A). Alexander Gillon

Alexander Gillon

Alexander Gillon was an American merchant and seaman from Charleston, South Carolina. He represented South Carolina in the U.S. House in 1793 and 1794.-Early life:...

(A), until October 6, 1794

- Robert Goodloe 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...
  
  (P), from February 9, 1795. Andrew Pickens
  Andrew Pickens (congressman)
  Andrew Pickens was a militia leader in the American Revolution and a member of the United States House of Representatives from South Carolina.-Early life:...
  
  (A)

Virginia

. Robert Rutherford

Robert Rutherford

Robert Rutherford was an American pioneer, soldier and statesman from western Virginia. He represented Virginia in the United States House of Representatives from 1793 until 1797....

(A). Andrew Moore (A). Joseph Neville

Joseph Neville

Joseph Neville was an American soldier and statesman from Virginia. He represented Virginia in the United States House of Representatives from 1793 until 1795-External links:*...

(A). Francis Preston

Francis Preston

Francis Preston was an American lawyer and politician from Abingdon, Virginia. He served in both houses of the state legislature and represented Virginia in the U.S...

(A). George Hancock

George Hancock (Virginia)

George Hancock was an American planter and lawyer from Virginia. He represented Virginia as a Federalist in the U.S. House from 1793 to 1797.He was born in Chesterfield County to George and Mary Hancock....

(P). Isaac Coles

Isaac Coles

Isaac Coles was an American planter and statesman from Virginia.Coles was born in Richmond, Virginia in 1747. He was educated at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg. During the American Revolutionary War, he served as a colonel in the Virginia militia...

(A). Abraham B. Venable

Abraham B. Venable

Abraham Bedford Venable was a representative and senator from Virginia. He was the uncle of congressman Abraham Watkins Venable....

(A). Thomas Claiborne

Thomas Claiborne (1749-1812)

Thomas Claiborne was a planter and politician from Brunswick County, Virginia, and represented Virginia in the United States House of Representatives from 1793 to 1799 and from 1801 to 1805....

(A). 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...

(A). Carter B. Harrison

Carter Bassett Harrison

Carter Bassett Harrison was a politician from the U.S. state of Virginia. He was the son of Benjamin Harrison V, a member of the Continental Congress and signer of the American Declaration of Independence, and the brother of William Henry Harrison, the ninth President of the United States.Harrison...

(A). Josiah Parker

Josiah Parker

Josiah Parker was an American politician who was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Virginia in the First through Sixth United States Congresses.-Life:...

(P). John Page (A). Samuel Griffin

Samuel Griffin

Samuel Griffin was a lawyer and politician from Virginia. He represented Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives.-Biography:...

(P). Francis Walker

Francis Walker (Virginia)

Francis Walker was an American planter and politician from Albemarle County, Virginia. He was member of the Virginia House of Delegates in 1788-91 and again in 1797-1801. He represented Virginia in the U.S. Congress from 1793 to 1795.Francis was the second son, and one of twelve children of Dr....

(A). James Madison

James Madison

James Madison, Jr. was an American statesman and political theorist. He was the fourth President of the United States and is hailed as the “Father of the Constitution” for being the primary author of the United States Constitution and at first an opponent of, and then a key author of the United...

(A). Anthony New

Anthony New

Anthony New was an 18th century and 19th century congressman and lawyer from Virginia and Kentucky.-Biography:Born in Gloucester County, Virginia, New completed preparatory studies, studied law and was admitted to the bar...

(A). Richard Bland Lee (P). John Nicholas (A). John Heath (A)

Non-voting members

("Southwest Territory," later "Tennessee"). James White

James White (politician)

James White was an American physician, lawyer, and politician. He was an early settler at Nashville, Tennessee and in Louisiana. He was a delegate for North Carolina in the Continental Congress and a non-voting member of the U.S. House for the Southwest Territory.White was born into a prosperous...

, seated September 3, 1794

Changes in membership

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

Senate

Albert Gallatin

Abraham Alfonse Albert Gallatin was a Swiss-American ethnologist, linguist, politician, diplomat, congressman, and the longest-serving United States Secretary of the Treasury. In 1831, he founded the University of the City of New York...

Roger Sherman

Roger Sherman was an early American lawyer and politician, as well as a founding father. He served as the first mayor of New Haven, Connecticut, and served on the Committee of Five that drafted the Declaration of Independence, and was also a representative and senator in the new republic...

(P)
| style="font-size:80%" | Died July 23, 1793
| | Stephen M. Mitchell

Stephen Mix Mitchell

Stephen Mix Mitchell was an American lawyer, jurist, and statesman from Wethersfield, Connecticut. He represented Connecticut in the Continental Congress and the U.S. Senate and was chief justice of the state's Supreme Court.When Roger Sherman died in 1793, Governor Huntington appointed him to the...

George Read (signer)

George Read was an American lawyer and politician from New Castle in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, a Continental Congressman from Delaware, a delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787, President of Delaware, and a member of the...

(P)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned on September 18, 1793. Kensey Johns

Kensey Johns (jurist)

Kensey Johns was a jurist from Delaware and father of Kensey Johns, Jr. and John Johns.-Early life:Johns was born in Maryland. His ancestral home, Sudley, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. In his early years, he participated as a minuteman in the American Revolution...

was appointed on March 19, 1794, but not permitted to qualify.
| | Henry Latimer

Henry Latimer (senator)

Dr. Henry Latimer was an American physician and politician from Newport, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was elected to the Continental Congress from Delaware, and was a member of the Federalist Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly, as U.S. Representative from Delaware, and U.S...

Albert Gallatin

James Monroe

James Monroe was the fifth President of the United States . Monroe was the last president who was a Founding Father of the United States, and the last president from the Virginia dynasty and the Republican Generation...

(A)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned May 11, 1794, to become United States Minister to France
| | Stevens T. Mason

Stevens Thomson Mason (Virginia)

Stevens Thomson Mason was a Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, a member of the Virginia state legislature and a Republican U.S. Senator from Virginia .-Early life and military career:...

John Taylor of Caroline

John Taylor usually called John Taylor of Caroline was a politician and writer. He served in the Virginia House of Delegates and in the United States Senate . He wrote several books on politics and agriculture...

(A)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned May 11, 1794
| | Henry Tazewell

Henry Tazewell

Henry Tazewell was an American politician who was instrumental in the early government of the U.S. state of Virginia. He was born in Brunswick County, Virginia. He served as the President pro tempore of the United States Senate in 1795.He was the father of Littleton Tazewell...

(A)
| Elected November 18, 1794
|}

House of Representatives

Henry Latimer (senator)

James White (politician)

John Francis Mercer

(A)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned April 13, 1794
| | Gabriel Duvall

Gabriel Duvall

Gabriel Duvall was an American politician and jurist.-Career:Born in Prince George's County, Maryland, Duvall read law to enter the Bar in 1778. He married Florence Adams Washburne , the daughter of General Henry Gilman Washburne and Florence Adams Washburne, on 1778...

Silas Talbot

Silas Talbot was an officer in the Continental Army and in the Continental Navy. Talbot is most famous for commanding the USS Constitution from 1798 to 1801.-Biography:...

Abraham Clark

(P)
| style="font-size:80%" | Died September 15, 1794
| | Aaron Kitchell

Aaron Kitchell

Aaron Kitchell was a blacksmith and politician from Hanover Township, New Jersey. He represented New Jersey in both the United States House of Representatives and the Senate....

Alexander Gillon

Alexander Gillon was an American merchant and seaman from Charleston, South Carolina. He represented South Carolina in the U.S. House in 1793 and 1794.-Early life:...

Uriah Forrest

Uriah Forrest was an American statesman and military leader from Maryland. Forrest was born in St. Mary's County in southern Maryland. During the American Revolutionary War, Forrest was injured and lost a leg in the Battle of Germantown...

(P)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned November 8, 1794
| | Benjamin Edwards

Benjamin Edwards (Maryland)

Benjamin Edwards was an American merchant and political leader from Montgomery County, Maryland. He represented the third district of Maryland for a very short time in the United States House of Representatives in 1795 after Uriah Forrest resigned.Benjamin's son, Ninian Edwards, would later serve...

Henry Latimer (senator)

(P)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned February 7, 1795, having been elected U.S. Senator
| Vacant
| Not filled in this Congress
|}

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...

: William White
William White (Bishop of Pennsylvania)
The Most Reverend William White was the first and fourth Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, USA , the first Bishop of the Diocese of Pennsylvania , and the second United States Senate Chaplain...

, Episcopalian
Doorkeeper: James Mathers
James Mathers
-Early life:Born in Ireland, he migrated with his family to New York City some years before the American Revolutionary War. He married Mary Maxwell and the couple had a daughter Effa baptized on 12 December, 1770 at a Presbyterian church in New York City. In the war's earliest days, Mathers joined...

of New York
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...

: Samuel A. Otis
Samuel Allyne Otis
Samuel A. Otis , a Delegate from Massachusetts; born in Barnstable, Barnstable County, Mass., November 24, 1740; was graduated from Harvard College in 1759; engaged in mercantile pursuits in Boston; member of the state house...

of Massachusetts

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...

: Ashbel Green
Ashbel Green
Ashbel Green, D.D. was an American Presbyterian minister and academic.Born in Hanover Township, New Jersey, Green served as a sergeant of the New Jersey militia during the American Revolutionary War, and went on to study with Dr. John Witherspoon and graduate as valedictorian from Princeton...

, 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,...
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....

: John Beckley
John J. Beckley
John James Beckley was an American political campaign manager and the first Librarian of the United States Congress, from 1802 to 1807...

of Virginia,
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...

: Gifford Dalley
Gifford Dalley
Gifford Dalley was a United States House of Representatives officer from 1789 to 1795. He served as the House Doorkeeper for the First, Second, and Third United States Congresses...
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...

: Joseph Wheaton
Joseph Wheaton
Joseph Wheaton was an elected United States House of Representatives officer from 1789 to 1809. He served as the House Sergeant at Arms for the First, through Tenth United States Congresses.-External links:*...

of Rhode Island

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