The 68th Delaware General Assembly was a meeting of the legislative branch of the state government, consisting of the Delaware Senate

Delaware Senate

The Delaware Senate is the upper house of the Delaware General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. State of Delaware. It is composed of 21 Senators, each of whom is elected to a four-year term, except when reapportionment occurs, at which time Senators may be elected to a two-year term....

 and the Delaware House of Representatives

Delaware House of Representatives

The Delaware House of Representatives is the lower house of the Delaware General Assembly; the state legislature of the U.S. State of Delaware. It is composed of 41 Representatives from an equal amount of constituencies, each of whom is elected to a two year term. The Delaware General Assembly...

. Elections were held the first Tuesday after November 1st and terms began on the first Tuesday in January. It met in Dover, Delaware, convening January 2, 1855, two weeks before the beginning of the first and second year of the administration of Governor Peter F. Causey

Peter F. Causey

Peter Foster Causey was an American merchant and politician from Milford, in Kent County, Delaware. He was a member of the American Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly and as Governor of Delaware....

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The apportionment of seats was permanently assigned to three senators and seven representatives for each of the three counties. Population of the county did not effect the number of delegates. Both chambers had a Know Nothing

Know Nothing

The Know Nothing was a movement by the nativist American political faction of the 1840s and 1850s. It was empowered by popular fears that the country was being overwhelmed by German and Irish Catholic immigrants, who were often regarded as hostile to Anglo-Saxon Protestant values and controlled by...

 majority.

Senate

Senators were elected by the public for a four year term, some elected each two year.

New Castle County Archibald Armstrong Sewell C. Biggs Charles I. du Pont

Kent County William Collins Daniel Currey Moses Harrington

Sussex County John A. Hazzard John Ponder Elihu J. Pusey

House of Representative

Representatives were elected by the public for a term, every two years.

New Castle County Samuel Biddle Jonathan Groves John J. Henry David McKee James V. Moore Edward Sheppard David C. Wilson

Kent County John W. Cullen Thomas Draper James B.R. Powell John W. Smith James W. Spruance William Tomlinson John Woodall, Jr.

Sussex County Woolsey Burton Robert G. Ellegood Asbury C. Pepper Burton C. Prettyman Charles Rickards Joseph P.H. Shipley John S. Waples

Places with more information

• Delaware Historical Society
  Delaware Historical Society
  The Delaware Historical Society began in 1864 as an effort to preserve documents from the Civil War. Since then, it has expanded into a state-wide historical institution with several venues and a major museum in Wilmington and the historic Read House & Gardens in New Castle.The society...
  
  ; website; 505 North Market Street, Wilmington, Delaware 19801; (302) 655-7161
• University of Delaware
  University of Delaware
  The university is organized into seven colleges:* College of Agriculture and Natural Resources* College of Arts and Sciences* Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics* College of Earth, Ocean and Environment* College of Education and Human Development...
  
  ; Library website; 181 South College Avenue, Newark, Delaware 19717; (302) 831-2965