7th United States Congress - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

House of Representatives

Senate

President: Aaron Burr
Aaron Burr
Aaron Burr, Jr. was an important political figure in the early history of the United States of America. After serving as a Continental Army officer in the Revolutionary War, Burr became a successful lawyer and politician...

(DR)
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...

:
- 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...
  
  (DR), first elected December 7, 1801
- Stephen R. Bradley
  Stephen R. Bradley
  Stephen Row Bradley was an American politician.Bradley was born in Wallingford, Connecticut. His parents were Moses and Mary Bradley, members of prominent New England families who had arrived from England in the 17th century. Bradley spent his childhood in Wallingford and studied at Yale,...
  
  (DR), first elected December 14, 1802

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...

: 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), elected December 7, 1801

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 ended with this Congress, requiring reelection in 1802; Class 2 meant their term began in the last Congress, requiring reelection in 1804; and Class 3 meant their term began in this Congress, requiring reelection in 1806.

Connecticut

1. 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...

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

(F)

Delaware

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)
1. Samuel White (F)

Georgia

2. 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...

(DR)
3. 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...

(DR)

Kentucky

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...

(DR)
3. John Breckinridge
John Breckinridge (1760-1806)
John Breckinridge was a United States Senator and Attorney General. He was the progenitor of the Breckinridge political family.-Early Life in Virginia:...

(DR)

Maryland

1. John Eager Howard
John Eager Howard
John Eager Howard was an American soldier and politician from Maryland. He was elected as governor of the state in 1789, and served three one-year terms. He also was elected to the Continental Congress, Congress of the United States and the US Senate. He was born in and died in Baltimore County...

(F)
3. 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...

(F), until November 19, 1801
- 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), from November 19, 1801

Massachusetts

2. 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...

(F)
1. Jonathan Mason
Jonathan Mason (politician)
Jonathan Mason was a Federalist United States Senator and Representative from Massachusetts during the early years of the United States....

(F)

New Hampshire

2. Samuel Livermore
Samuel Livermore
Samuel Livermore was a U.S. politician. He was a U.S. Senator from New Hampshire from 1793 to 1801 and served as President pro tempore of the United States Senate in 1796 and again in 1799....

(F), until June 12, 1801
- Simeon Olcott
  Simeon Olcott
  Simeon Olcott was a United States Senator from New Hampshire. Born in Bolton, Connecticut Colony, he graduated from Yale College in 1761, studied law, was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Charlestown, New Hampshire...
  
  (F), from June 17, 1801
3. James Sheafe
James Sheafe
James Sheafe was a United States Representative and Senator from New Hampshire. Born in Portsmouth, he completed preparatory studies and graduated from Harvard College in 1774...

(F), until June 14, 1802
- William Plumer
  William Plumer
  William Plumer was an American lawyer and Baptist lay preacher from Epping, New Hampshire. Born in 1759 in Newburyport, Massachusetts, he represented New Hampshire as a Federalist in the United States Senate from June 17, 1802 to March 4, 1807...
  
  (F), from June 17, 1802

New Jersey

2. 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...

(F)
1. Aaron Ogden
Aaron Ogden
Aaron Ogden was a United States Senator and the 5th Governor of New Jersey.-Early life:Ogden was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey...

(F)

New York

1. Gouverneur Morris
Gouverneur Morris
Gouverneur Morris , was an American statesman, a Founding Father of the United States, and a native of New York City who represented Pennsylvania in the Constitutional Convention of 1787. He was a signatory to the Articles of Confederation. Morris was also an author of large sections of the...

(F)
3. John Armstrong, Jr.
John Armstrong, Jr.
John Armstrong, Jr. was an American soldier and statesman who was a delegate to the Continental Congress, U.S. Senator from New York, and Secretary of War.-Early life and Revolutionary War:...

(DR), until February 5, 1802
- DeWitt Clinton
  DeWitt Clinton
  DeWitt Clinton was an early American politician and naturalist who served as United States Senator and the sixth Governor of New York. In this last capacity he was largely responsible for the construction of the Erie Canal...
  
  (DR), from February 9, 1802

North Carolina

2. Jesse Franklin
Jesse Franklin
Jesse Franklin was the Democratic-Republican U.S. senator from the U.S. state of North Carolina between 1799 and 1805 and between 1807 and 1813. He later served as the 20th Governor of North Carolina from 1820 to 1821....

(DR)
3. David Stone
David Stone
David Stone was the 15th Governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1808 to 1810. Both before and after his term as governor, he served as a U.S. senator, between 1801 and 1807 and between 1813 and 1814.-Biography:...

(DR)

Pennsylvania

1. James Ross (F)
3. Peter 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...

(DR), until June 30, 1801
- George Logan
  George Logan
  George Logan was an American physician, farmer, legislator and politician from Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. He served in the Pennsylvania state legislature and represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate. He was a founder of the Democratic-Republican Societies in 1793...
  
  (DR), from July 13, 1801

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...

(DR)
2. Ray Greene (F), until March 5, 1801
- Christopher Ellery
  Christopher Ellery
  Christopher Ellery was a United States Senator from Rhode Island. Born in Newport, he graduated from Yale College in 1787, studied law, was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Newport. He was clerk of the superior court of Newport County from 1794 to 1798.Ellery was elected as a...
  
  (DR), from May 6, 1801

South Carolina

2. Charles Pinckney
Charles Pinckney (governor)
Charles Pinckney was an American politician who was a signer of the United States Constitution, the 37th Governor of South Carolina, a Senator and a member of the House of Representatives...

(DR), until June 6, 1801
- Thomas Sumter
  Thomas Sumter
  Thomas Sumter nicknamed the "Carolina Gamecock" , was a hero of the American Revolution and went on to become a longtime member of the Congress of the United States.-Early life:Thomas Sumter was born near Charlottesville in Hanover County, Virginia in 1734...
  
  (DR), from December 15, 1801
3. John E. Colhoun
John E. Colhoun
John Ewing Colhoun was a United States Senator and lawyer from South Carolina.Colhoun, was born in Staunton, Virginia where he attended common schools before graduating from the College of New Jersey in 1774. He was a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1778 to 1800...

(DR), until October 26, 1802
- Pierce Butler
  Pierce Butler
  Pierce Butler was a soldier, planter, and statesman, recognized as one of United States' Founding Fathers. He represented South Carolina in the Continental Congress, the 1787 Constitutional Convention, and the U.S. Senate...
  
  (DR), from November 4, 1802

Tennessee

1. Joseph Anderson
Joseph Anderson
Joseph Inslee Anderson was an American soldier, judge, and politician, who served as a United States Senator from Tennessee from 1799 to 1815, and later as the first Comptroller of the United States Treasury...

(DR)
2. William Cocke
William Cocke
William Cocke was an American lawyer, pioneer, and statesman. He has the distinction of having served in the state legislature of four different states: Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Mississippi, and was one of the first two United States senators for Tennessee.-Biography:William was...

(DR)

Vermont

3. Elijah Paine
Elijah Paine
Elijah Paine was a United States Senator from Vermont, serving as a Federalist from 1795 to 1801, and thereafter a long-serving United States federal judge....

(F), until September 1, 1801
- Stephen R. Bradley
  Stephen R. Bradley
  Stephen Row Bradley was an American politician.Bradley was born in Wallingford, Connecticut. His parents were Moses and Mary Bradley, members of prominent New England families who had arrived from England in the 17th century. Bradley spent his childhood in Wallingford and studied at Yale,...
  
  (DR), from October 15, 1801
1. Nathaniel Chipman
Nathaniel Chipman
Nathaniel Chipman was a United States Senator from Vermont, and Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court....

(F)

Virginia

1. 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:...

(DR)
2. Wilson C. Nicholas
Wilson Cary Nicholas
Wilson Cary Nicholas was an American politician who served in the U.S. Senate from 1799 to 1804 and was the 19th Governor of Virginia from 1814 to 1816....

(DR)

House of Representatives

The names of members of the House of Representatives elected statewide on the 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...

or otherwise at-large, are preceded by an "At-large," and the names of those elected from districts, whether plural or single member, 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...

.. 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). 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). Calvin Goddard (F), from May 14, 1801. Roger Griswold

Roger Griswold

Roger Griswold was the 22nd Governor of Connecticut and a member of the US House of Representatives, serving as a Federalist....

(F). Elias Perkins

Elias Perkins

Elias Perkins was a United States Representative from Connecticut. He was born in Lisbon, Connecticut. He graduated from Yale College in 1786...

(F). John Cotton Smith

John Cotton Smith

John Cotton Smith was the 23rd Governor of Connecticut. He was a Federalist, serving as Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives , as a Congressman for Connecticut from 1800–1806, Lt...

(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

. James A. Bayard

James A. Bayard (elder)

James Asheton Bayard II was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a member of the Federalist Party, who served as U.S. Representative from Delaware and U.S. Senator from Delaware.-Early life and family:Bayard was born in Philadelphia,...

(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...

.. John Milledge (DR), until May 1802

- Peter Early
  Peter Early
  Peter Early was an American lawyer, jurist and politician.He was born near Madison, Virginia in 1773, the son of Joel Early and Lucy Smith. His cousin, Jubal Early, was the grandfather of Confederate General Jubal Anderson Early . Peter Early graduated from the Lexington Academy...
  
  (DR), from January 10, 1803. Benjamin Taliaferro
  Benjamin Taliaferro
  Benjamin Taliaferro was a United States Representative from Georgia.-Biography:He was born in present-day Amherst County, Virginia in 1750 to an English-Italian family, the Taliaferros, who settled in Virginia in the early 17th century...
  
  (DR), until May 1802
- David Meriwether
  David Meriwether (representative)
  David Meriwether was a United States Congressional Representative from the state of Georgia. U.S. congressman James Meriwether was his son.-Biography:...
  
  (DR), from December 6, 1802

Kentucky

. Thomas T. Davis

Thomas Terry Davis

Thomas Terry Davis was a United States Representative from Kentucky.-Education and early career:Davis studied law and in 1789 was admitted to the Kentucky bar...

(DR). John Fowler (DR)

Maryland

. John Campbell

John Campbell (1765–1828)

John Campbell was a United States Representative from Maryland. Born near Port Tobacco, he studied law and was admitted to the bar and practiced...

(F). Richard Sprigg, Jr.

Richard Sprigg, Jr.

Richard Sprigg, Jr. was an American lawyer, jurist and politician from Prince George's County, Maryland. He represented Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives and later served as a state court justice....

(DR), until February 11, 1802

- Walter Bowie
  Walter Bowie
  Walter Bowie was an American politician.-Biography:Born in Mattaponi, near Nottingham, Prince George's County, Maryland, Bowie attended Reverend John Eversfield's School near Nottingham, the common schools in Annapolis, and Craddock’s School near Baltimore...
  
  (DR), from March 24, 1802. Thomas Plater
  Thomas Plater
  Thomas Plater was an American lawyer and politician from Maryland. He represented the third district of Maryland in the U.S. House from 1801 to 1805....
  
  (F). 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,...
  
  (DR). 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). John Archer
  John Archer (Maryland)
  John Archer was a U.S. Congressman from Maryland, representing the sixth district for three terms from 1801–1807...
  
  (DR). Joseph H. Nicholson
  Joseph Hopper Nicholson
  Joseph Hopper Nicholson was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician from Maryland.Born in Chestertown, Kent County, Maryland, Nicholson graduated from Washington College in 1787 and studied law. He was admitted to the bar and practiced, and also served as a member of the Maryland House of...
  
  (DR). John Dennis (F)'

Massachusetts

. John Bacon

John Bacon (Massachusetts)

John Bacon was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts.John Bacon was born in Canterbury, Connecticut on April 5, 1738. Upon graduating from Princeton College he spent some time preaching in Somerset County, Maryland. On 25 September 1771 he and Mr...

(DR). William Shepard

William Shepard

William Lyman Shepard was a United States Representative from Massachusetts. Born in Westfield, he attended the common schools, engaged in agricultural pursuits, and served in the French and Indian wars for six years. He was a member of the committee of correspondence for Westfield in 1774, and...

(F). Ebenezer Mattoon

Ebenezer Mattoon

Ebenezer Mattoon was a United States Representative from Massachusetts. He was born in North Amherst on August 19, 1755. He attended the common schools and received private instruction. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1776. Mattoon served in the Revolutionary Army...

(F). Levi Lincoln, Sr.

Levi Lincoln, Sr.

Levi Lincoln, Sr. was an American revolutionary and statesman who served as a Minuteman at the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War, a state legislator in Massachusetts, a participant in Massachusetts' state constitutional convention, Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, a U.S...

(DR), until March 5, 1801

- Seth Hastings
  Seth Hastings
  Seth Hastings was a United States Representative from Massachusetts. Born in Cambridge to Seth & Hannah Hastings, he was a descendant of Thomas Hastings who came from the East Anglia region of England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634...
  
  (F), from January 11, 1802. Lemuel Williams
  Lemuel Williams
  Lemuel Williams was a United States Representative from Massachusetts. Born in Taunton, he graduated from Harvard College in 1765, studied law, was admitted to the bar and practiced in Bristol and Worcester Counties...
  
  (F). Josiah Smith
  Josiah Smith
  Josiah Smith was a United States Representative from Massachusetts. Born in Pembroke, to Reverend Thomas Smith and Judith Miller Smith...
  
  (DR). Phanuel Bishop
  Phanuel Bishop
  Phanuel Bishop was a United States Representative from Massachusetts. Born in Rehoboth, he attended the common schools, was an innkeeper, and served in the Massachusetts State Senate from 1787 to 1791...
  
  (DR). William Eustis
  William Eustis
  William Eustis was an early American statesman.He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and studied at the Boston Latin School before he entered Harvard College, from which he graduated in 1772. He studied medicine under Dr. Joseph Warren and helped care for the wounded at the Battle of Bunker...
  
  (DR). Joseph Bradley Varnum
  Joseph Bradley Varnum
  Joseph Bradley Varnum was a U.S. politician of the Democratic-Republican Party from Massachusetts.-Biography:...
  
  (DR). Nathan Read
  Nathan Read
  Nathan Read was a United States Representative from Massachusetts. Born in Warren, he attended the common schools and graduated from Harvard University in 1781. He taught school in Beverly and Salem and was elected a tutor in Harvard University, where he continued until 1787...
  
  (F). Manasseh Cutler
  Manasseh Cutler
  Manasseh Cutler was an American clergyman involved in the American Revolutionary War. Cutler was also a member of the United States House of Representatives and a founder of Ohio University....
  
  (F). Silas Lee
  Silas Lee
  Silas Lee was a United States Representative from Massachusetts. Born in Concord, Massachusetts, he pursued classical studies and graduated from Harvard University in 1784...
  
  (F), until August 20, 1801
- Samuel Thatcher
  Samuel Thatcher
  Samuel Thatcher was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts.He was born in Cambridge, Mass., July 1, 1776; was graduated from Harvard University in 1793; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1797 and commenced practice in New Gloucester, Maine ; moved to Warren...
  
  (F), from December 6, 1802. 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 ...
  
  (F). Richard Cutts
  Richard Cutts
  Richard Cutts was a United States Representative from Massachusetts. Born on Cutts Island, Saco, Massachusetts , he attended rural schools and Phillips Academy, Andover. He graduated from Harvard University in 1790, studied law, and engaged extensively in navigation and commercial pursuits...
  
  (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...

.. Abiel Foster

Abiel Foster

Abiel Foster was an American clergyman and statesman from Canterbury, New Hampshire. He represented New Hampshire in the Continental Congress and the U.S. Congress....

(F). Joseph Peirce

Joseph Peirce

Joseph Peirce was a United States Representative from New Hampshire. He was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire...

(F), until 1802

- Samuel Hunt
  Samuel Hunt (New Hampshire)
  Samuel Hunt was a U.S. Representative from New Hampshire.Born in Charlestown, New Hampshire, Hunt completed preparatory studies, then studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1790, commencing practice in Alstead. He moved to Keene the same year and in 1795 abandoned the practice of law. He...
  
  (F), until December 6, 1802. Samuel Tenney
  Samuel Tenney
  Samuel Tenney was a United States Representative from New Hampshire. Born in Byfield, Massachusetts, he attended Dummer Academy there and graduated from Harvard College in 1772. He taught school at Andover and studied medicine, beginning practice in Exeter, New Hampshire. He was a surgeon in the...
  
  (F). George B. Upham
  George B. Upham
  George Baxter Upham was a United States Representative from New Hampshire. Born in Brookfield, Massachusetts, Upham was the brother of Jabez Upham and cousin of Charles Wentworth Upham. He attended the common schools and Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, 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...

.. 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). Ebenezer Elmer

Ebenezer Elmer

Ebenezer Elmer was an American physician from Bridgeton, New Jersey. He represented New Jersey in the U.S. Congress from the Democratic-Republican Party from 1801 to 1807...

(DR). William Helms

William Helms

William Helms was a United States Representative from New Jersey. Born in Sussex County, he served during the Revolutionary War as second lieutenant, first lieutenant, and captain, and was brevetted major on September 30, 1783...

(DR). James Mott

James Mott (New Jersey)

James Mott was a United States Representative from New Jersey. Born near Middletown, Monmouth County, he was privately taught and became engaged in agricultural pursuits. He attained the rank of captain in the Second Regiment of Monmouth County Militia in 1775...

(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)

New York

. John Smith

John Smith (New York)

John Smith was an American politician from New York.-Life:He was the son of Rev. Caleb Smith, a minister at Orange, New Jersey...

(DR). Samuel L. Mitchill

Samuel Latham Mitchill

Samuel Latham Mitchill was an American physician, naturalist, and politician from New York. He was born in Hempstead, New York...

(DR). 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...

(DR). Lucas Elmendorf

Lucas Conrad Elmendorf

Lucas Conrad Elmendorf was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Kingston, New York, he graduated from Princeton College in 1782, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1785 and practiced....

(DR). Thomas Tillotson

Thomas Tillotson

Thomas Tillotson was an American physician and politician.-Life:He received a thorough education, studied medicine, and practiced. During the American Revolutionary War, he was commissioned First lieutenant in the Maryland Militia in 1776...

(DR), until August 10, 1801

- 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...
  
  (DR), from December 7, 1801. John Bird
  John Bird (New York)
  John Bird was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Litchfield, Connecticut, he pursued classical studies, graduated from Yale College in 1786, studied law, was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Litchfield...
  
  (F), until July 25, 1801
- John P. Van Ness
  John Peter Van Ness
  John Peter Van Ness was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Ghent, New York to an old Dutch family. He completed preparatory studies at Washington Seminary and attended Columbia College in New York City...
  
  (DR), from December 7, 1801; until January 17, 1803, Vacant thereafter. David Thomas
  David Thomas (New York)
  See David Thomas for similarly named peopleDavid Thomas was an American politician.-Life:...
  
  (DR). Killian K. Van Rensselaer (F). Benjamin Walker (F). Thomas Morris
  Thomas Morris (New York)
  Thomas Morris was a United States Representative from New York and was a son of Robert Morris, a merchant, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and later a U.S. Senator. The younger Morris was born in Philadelphia and attended school in Geneva, Switzerland and the University of Leipzig, in...
  
  (F)

North Carolina

. James Holland (DR). Archibald Henderson

Archibald Henderson (politician)

Archibald Henderson was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina; born near Williamsboro, Granville County, North Carolina, August 7, 1768; attended the common schools, and was graduated from Springer College; moved to Salisbury, North Carolina, about 1790; studied law; was admitted to...

(F). Robert Williams

Robert Williams (American politician)

Robert Williams was a Democratic-Republican U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1797 and 1803 and the Governor of the Mississippi Territory from 1805 to 1809...

(DR). Richard Stanford

Richard Stanford

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

(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). William H. Hill

William Henry Hill (North Carolina)

William Henry Hill was a Congressional representative from North Carolina; born in Brunswick, North Carolina; attended the public schools in Boston, Massachusetts; engaged in agricultural pursuits; studied law in Boston; was admitted to the bar and practiced; appointed United States district...

(F). 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...

(F). Charles Johnson

Charles Johnson (U.S. politician)

Charles Johnson was a Congressional representative from North Carolina. Johnson was born in Chowan County, North Carolina; engaged as a planter; elected to the Continental Congress in 1781, 1784, and 1785, but did not attend; served in the state senate in 1781-1784, 1788–1790, and 1792 ; elected...

(DR), until July 23, 1802

- Thomas Wynns
  Thomas Wynns
  Thomas Wynns was a United States Congressman from Hertford County, North Carolina. He was an original member of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Board of Trustees...
  
  (DR), from December 7, 1802. Willis Alston
  Willis Alston
  Willis Alston was a U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1825 and 1831.Born near Littleton, North Carolina in Halifax County, Alston was said to have attended Princeton College, though no records exist of his enrollment, and engaged in agricultural pursuits...
  
  (DR). John Stanly
  John Stanly
  John Stanly was a Federalist U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1801 and 1803 and again between 1809 and 1811. He was the father of Edward Stanly....
  
  (F)

Pennsylvania

. William Jones

William Jones (statesman)

William Jones was an American politician.Jones was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1760. Apprenticed in a shipyard, during the American War of Independence he saw combat in the battles of Trenton and Princeton and later served at sea. In the decades that followed the war, he was a successful...

(DR). Michael Leib

Michael Leib

Michael Leib was an American physician, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and philosopher born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He served Pennsylvania in both houses of the state legislature and represented Pennsylvania in both the U.S...

(DR). Joseph Hemphill

Joseph Hemphill

Joseph Hemphill was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Hemphill was born in Thornbury Township, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1791. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1793 and commenced practice in West...

(F): Robert Brown

Robert Brown (Pennsylvania)

Robert Brown was a United States Representative from Pennsylvania. Born in Weaversville, Pennsylvania, he attended the common schools and was apprenticed to the blacksmith trade...

(DR): Isaac Van Horne

Isaac Van Horne

Isaac Van Horne was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.-Ancestry:...

(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). John A. Hanna

John A. Hanna

John Andre Hanna was a United States Representative from Pennsylvania.Born in Flemington, New Jersey, he received a classical education and graduated from Princeton College in 1782. He studied law, was admitted to the bar of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in 1783 and commenced practice in Lancaster...

(DR). Thomas Boude

Thomas Boude

Thomas Boude was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Thomas Boude was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. During the American Revolutionary War served as a lieutenant under Gen...

(F). John Stewart

John Stewart (Pennsylvania)

John Stewart was a United States Representative from Pennsylvania. He is known to have completed preparatory studies. From 1789 to 1796, he was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Thomas Hartley...

(DR). Andrew Gregg (DR). Henry Woods

Henry Woods (Pennsylvania)

Henry Woods was a United States Representative from Pennsylvania. Born in Bedford, he received a limited schooling, attending the subscription schools of Bedford County. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1792 and commenced practice in Bedford...

(F). 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...

(DR). William Hoge

William Hoge

William Hoge was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.William Hoge was born near Hogestown, Pennsylvania. He received a limited schooling and moved to western Pennsylvania in 1782, where he and his brother John founded the town of Washington, Pennsylvania...

(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...

.. Joseph Stanton, Jr.

Joseph Stanton, Jr.

Joseph Stanton, Jr. was an American politician of the Anti-Federalist faction.Stanton was born in Charlestown, Rhode Island in 1739. He served in the state legislature from 1768 to 1774....

(DR). Thomas Tillinghast

Thomas Tillinghast

Thomas Tillinghast was a United States Representative from Rhode Island. Born in East Greenwich, Tillinghast was elected as a member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives and served from 1772 to 1773. He held several offices under the Revolutionary authorities and again served in the Rhode...

(DR)

South Carolina

. Thomas Lowndes

Thomas Lowndes (congressman)

Thomas Lowndes was an American lawyer and statesman from Charleston, South Carolina. He represented South Carolina in the U.S. Congress from March 4, 1801 to March 3, 1805.-External links:*...

(F). John Rutledge, Jr.

John Rutledge, Jr.

John Rutledge, Jr. was a United States Representative from South Carolina. Born in Charleston, he was a son of John Rutledge and a nephew of Edward Rutledge, both of whom were Continental Congressmen from South Carolina. The younger John received private instruction and also attended school in...

(F). Benjamin Huger (F). Thomas Sumter

Thomas Sumter

Thomas Sumter nicknamed the "Carolina Gamecock" , was a hero of the American Revolution and went on to become a longtime member of the Congress of the United States.-Early life:Thomas Sumter was born near Charlottesville in Hanover County, Virginia in 1734...

(DR), until December 15, 1801

- 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...
  
  (DR), from January 24, 1803. William Butler, Sr.
  William Butler (1759-1821)
  William Butler was a United States Representative from South Carolina.Born in Prince William County, Virginia, he moved to South Carolina as a young man. He served in the Snow Campaign under Colonel Richard Richardson in 1775 and in Gen. Andrew Williamson's expedition against the Cherokee Indians...
  
  (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)

Tennessee

. William Dickson

William Dickson (congressman)

-Biography:He was born in Duplin County, North Carolina on May 5, 1770 and was educated at Grove Academy in Kenansville. With his parents, he moved to Tennessee in 1795 to study and practice medicine as a physician in Nashville. In 1799, he entered politics, becoming the Speaker of the Tennessee...

(DR)

Vermont

. Israel Smith

Israel Smith

Israel Smith was an American lawyer and politician who held a wide variety of positions in the state of Vermont....

(DR). Lewis R. Morris

Lewis R. Morris

Lewis Richard Morris was a United States Representative from Vermont and a nephew of Gouverneur Morris and Lewis Morris. Born in Scarsdale, New York, he attended the common schools. He moved to Springfield, Vermont, and from 1781 to 1783 was secretary of foreign affairs...

(F)

Virginia

. John Smith

John Smith (Virginia)

John Smith was a United States Representative from Virginia; born at Shooter's Hill, near Locust Hill, Middlesex County, Va., May 7, 1750; moved to Frederick County, Va., in 1773 and engaged in planting at Hackwood, near Winchester; commissioned a justice of the peace in 1773; served in Dunmore's...

(DR). David Holmes

David Holmes (politician)

David Holmes was the last governor of the Mississippi Territory and the first governor of the State of Mississippi.-Career:...

(DR). George Jackson

George Jackson (Virginia)

George Jackson was an American farmer, lawyer, and politician. Born in Cecil County, Maryland to John and Elizabeth Jackson, his family moved to Virginia...

(DR). Abram Trigg

Abram Trigg

Abram Trigg was an American farmer and politician from Bedford County, Virginia. He fought with the Virginia militia in the Revolutionary War and represented Virginia 6th congressional district in the U.S. Congress from 1797 until 1804....

(DR). John J. Trigg

John J. Trigg

John Johns Trigg was an American farmer and politician from Bedford County, Virginia. He fought with the Virginia militia in the Revolutionary War and represented Virginia in the U.S. Congress from 1797 until 1804.-Family life:...

(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). 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). 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....

(DR). 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...

(DR). Edwin Gray

Edwin Gray

Edwin Gray was an 18th century and 19th century politician and lawyer from Virginia.Born in Southampton County, Virginia, Gray attended the College of William and Mary and later served in the House of Burgesses from 1769 to 1775...

(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). John Stratton (F). 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). Samuel J. Cabell

Samuel Jordan Cabell

Samuel Jordan Cabell was an American Revolutionary war officer and Democratic-Republican United States Congressman from 1795 to 1803....

(DR). John Dawson (DR). 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...

(DR). Richard Brent

Richard Brent (Virginia)

Richard Brent was an American planter, lawyer, and politician from Stafford County, Virginia. He represented Virginia in both the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate.-External links:*...

(DR). Philip R. Thompson

Philip R. Thompson

Philip Rootes Thompson was an 18th century and 19th century politician and lawyer from Virginia.Born near Fredericksburg, Virginia, Thompson was educated by private teachers as a child. He graduated from the College of William and Mary, studied law and was admitted to the bar, commencing practice...

(DR). John Taliaferro

John Taliaferro

John Taliaferro was a nineteenth-century politician, lawyer and librarian from Virginia.-Early life and education:Born on "Hays" near Fredericksburg, Virginia, Taliaferro attended the common schools as a child...

(DR)

Non-voting members

. Narsworthy Hunter

Narsworthy Hunter

Narsworthy Hunter was a delegate to the U.S. Congress from the Mississippi Territory.Hunter was born in Virginia, birth date unknown, and relocated as a young adult to Mississippi. In 1793, he was a captain in a local militia organization of his district...

, until March 11, 1802

- Thomas M. Green Jr. (DR)
  Democratic-Republican Party (United States)
  The Democratic-Republican Party or Republican Party was an American political party founded in the early 1790s by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Political scientists use the former name, while historians prefer the latter one; contemporaries generally called the party the "Republicans", along...
  
  , from December 6, 1802. Paul Fearing
  Paul Fearing
  Paul Fearing was Delegate from the Territory Northwest of the River Ohio. He was born in Wareham, Massachusetts....
  
  (F)

Changes in membership

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

Senate

Christopher Ellery

Christopher Ellery was a United States Senator from Rhode Island. Born in Newport, he graduated from Yale College in 1787, studied law, was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Newport. He was clerk of the superior court of Newport County from 1794 to 1798.Ellery was elected as a...

Charles Pinckney (governor)

Charles Pinckney was an American politician who was a signer of the United States Constitution, the 37th Governor of South Carolina, a Senator and a member of the House of Representatives...

(DR)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned June 6, 1801 after being appointed Minister to Spain

United States Ambassador to Spain

-Ambassadors:*John Jay**Appointed: September 29, 1779**Title: Minister Plenipotentiary**Presented credentials:**Terminated mission: ~May 20, 1782*William Carmichael**Appointed: April 20, 1790**Title: Chargé d'Affaires...

. His successor was elected.
| | Thomas Sumter

Thomas Sumter

Samuel Livermore

Samuel Livermore was a U.S. politician. He was a U.S. Senator from New Hampshire from 1793 to 1801 and served as President pro tempore of the United States Senate in 1796 and again in 1799....

(F)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned June 12, 1801. His successor was elected.
| | Simeon Olcott

Simeon Olcott

Simeon Olcott was a United States Senator from New Hampshire. Born in Bolton, Connecticut Colony, he graduated from Yale College in 1761, studied law, was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Charlestown, New Hampshire...

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...

(DR)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned June 30, 1801. His successor was appointed.
| | George Logan

George Logan

George Logan was an American physician, farmer, legislator and politician from Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. He served in the Pennsylvania state legislature and represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate. He was a founder of the Democratic-Republican Societies in 1793...

Elijah Paine

Elijah Paine was a United States Senator from Vermont, serving as a Federalist from 1795 to 1801, and thereafter a long-serving United States federal judge....

(F)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned September 1, 1801. His successor was elected.
| | Stephen R. Bradley

Stephen R. Bradley

Stephen Row Bradley was an American politician.Bradley was born in Wallingford, Connecticut. His parents were Moses and Mary Bradley, members of prominent New England families who had arrived from England in the 17th century. Bradley spent his childhood in Wallingford and studied at Yale,...

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...

(F)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned November 19, 1801. His successor was elected.
| | 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...

John Armstrong, Jr.

John Armstrong, Jr. was an American soldier and statesman who was a delegate to the Continental Congress, U.S. Senator from New York, and Secretary of War.-Early life and Revolutionary War:...

(DR)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned February 5, 1802. His successor was elected.
| | DeWitt Clinton

DeWitt Clinton

DeWitt Clinton was an early American politician and naturalist who served as United States Senator and the sixth Governor of New York. In this last capacity he was largely responsible for the construction of the Erie Canal...

James Sheafe

James Sheafe was a United States Representative and Senator from New Hampshire. Born in Portsmouth, he completed preparatory studies and graduated from Harvard College in 1774...

(F)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned June 14, 1802. His successor was elected.
| | William Plumer

William Plumer

William Plumer was an American lawyer and Baptist lay preacher from Epping, New Hampshire. Born in 1759 in Newburyport, Massachusetts, he represented New Hampshire as a Federalist in the United States Senate from June 17, 1802 to March 4, 1807...

John E. Colhoun

John Ewing Colhoun was a United States Senator and lawyer from South Carolina.Colhoun, was born in Staunton, Virginia where he attended common schools before graduating from the College of New Jersey in 1774. He was a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1778 to 1800...

(DR)
| style="font-size:80%" | Died October 26, 1802. His successor was elected.
| | Pierce Butler

Pierce Butler

Pierce Butler was a soldier, planter, and statesman, recognized as one of United States' Founding Fathers. He represented South Carolina in the Continental Congress, the 1787 Constitutional Convention, and the U.S. Senate...

(DR)
| Seated November 4, 1802
|-
| Ohio
(1)
| rowspan=2 | New seats
| rowspan=2 style="font-size:80%" |Ohio was admitted to the Union on November 29, 1802
| Vacant
| rowspan=2 | Not filled this Congress
|-
| Ohio
(3)
| Vacant
|}

House of Representatives

replacements: 8
- Democratic-Republicans
  Democratic-Republican Party (United States)
  The Democratic-Republican Party or Republican Party was an American political party founded in the early 1790s by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Political scientists use the former name, while historians prefer the latter one; contemporaries generally called the party the "Republicans", along...
  
  : no net change
- Federalists
  Federalist Party (United States)
  The Federalist Party was the first American political party, from the early 1790s to 1816, the era of the First Party System, with remnants lasting into the 1820s. The Federalists controlled the federal government until 1801...
  
  : no net change
deaths: 1
resignations: 9
forfeiture: 1
vacancy: 1
Total seats with changes: 11

Elizur Goodrich

Elizur Goodrich was an American lawyer and politician from Connecticut.-Biography:Born in Durham, Connecticut, he was the son of Elizur Goodrich. He graduated from Yale in 1779, was a tutor there from 1781 to 1783, and studied law. After his admission to the bar in 1783, he practiced in New Haven...

Levi Lincoln, Sr.

(DR)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned March 5, 1801 after being appointed US Attorney General

United States Attorney General

The United States Attorney General is the head of the United States Department of Justice concerned with legal affairs and is the chief law enforcement officer of the United States government. The attorney general is considered to be the chief lawyer of the U.S. government...

| | Seth Hastings

Seth Hastings

Seth Hastings was a United States Representative from Massachusetts. Born in Cambridge to Seth & Hannah Hastings, he was a descendant of Thomas Hastings who came from the East Anglia region of England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634...

(F)
| January 11, 1802
|-
|
| | John Bird

John Bird (New York)

John Bird was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Litchfield, Connecticut, he pursued classical studies, graduated from Yale College in 1786, studied law, was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Litchfield...

(F)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned July 25, 1801
| | John Peter Van Ness

John Peter Van Ness

John Peter Van Ness was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Ghent, New York to an old Dutch family. He completed preparatory studies at Washington Seminary and attended Columbia College in New York City...

(DR)
| December 7, 1801
|-
|
| | Thomas Tillotson

Thomas Tillotson

(DR)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned August 10, 1801, upon appointment as NY Secretary of State

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...

| | 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...

(DR)
| December 7, 1801
|-
|
| | Silas Lee

Silas Lee

Silas Lee was a United States Representative from Massachusetts. Born in Concord, Massachusetts, he pursued classical studies and graduated from Harvard University in 1784...

(F)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned August 20, 1801
| | Samuel Thatcher

Samuel Thatcher

Samuel Thatcher was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts.He was born in Cambridge, Mass., July 1, 1776; was graduated from Harvard University in 1793; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1797 and commenced practice in New Gloucester, Maine ; moved to Warren...

(F)
| December 6, 1802
|-
|
| | Thomas Sumter

Thomas Sumter

(DR)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned December 15, 1801 after being elected to the US Senate
| | 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...

(DR)
| January 24, 1803
|-
|
| | Benjamin Taliaferro

Benjamin Taliaferro

Benjamin Taliaferro was a United States Representative from Georgia.-Biography:He was born in present-day Amherst County, Virginia in 1750 to an English-Italian family, the Taliaferros, who settled in Virginia in the early 17th century...

(DR)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned sometime in 1802
| | David Meriwether

David Meriwether (representative)

David Meriwether was a United States Congressional Representative from the state of Georgia. U.S. congressman James Meriwether was his son.-Biography:...

(DR)
| December 6, 1802
|-
|
| | Joseph Peirce

Joseph Peirce

Joseph Peirce was a United States Representative from New Hampshire. He was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire...

(F)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned sometime in 1802
| | Samuel Hunt

Samuel Hunt (New Hampshire)

Samuel Hunt was a U.S. Representative from New Hampshire.Born in Charlestown, New Hampshire, Hunt completed preparatory studies, then studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1790, commencing practice in Alstead. He moved to Keene the same year and in 1795 abandoned the practice of law. He...

(F)
| December 6, 1802
|-
|
| | Richard Sprigg, Jr.

Richard Sprigg, Jr.

(DR)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned February 11, 1802
| | Walter Bowie

Walter Bowie

Walter Bowie was an American politician.-Biography:Born in Mattaponi, near Nottingham, Prince George's County, Maryland, Bowie attended Reverend John Eversfield's School near Nottingham, the common schools in Annapolis, and Craddock’s School near Baltimore...

(DR)
| March 24, 1802
|-
|
| Narsworthy Hunter

Narsworthy Hunter

| style="font-size:80%" | Died March 11, 1802
| Thomas M. Green, Jr.

Thomas M. Green, Jr.

'Thomas Martston Green Jr. was a Mississippi Territorial politician, plantation owner, and Delegate to the United States House of Representatives during the 7th United States Congress representing the Mississippi Territory.-Early life:Thomas was born to Thomas Marston Green Sr., a future Colonel...

Peter Early

Peter Early was an American lawyer, jurist and politician.He was born near Madison, Virginia in 1773, the son of Joel Early and Lucy Smith. His cousin, Jubal Early, was the grandfather of Confederate General Jubal Anderson Early . Peter Early graduated from the Lexington Academy...

Thomas Wynns

Thomas Wynns was a United States Congressman from Hertford County, North Carolina. He was an original member of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Board of Trustees...

John Peter Van Ness

(DR)
| style="font-size:80%" | Seat declared forfeited January 17, 1803
| Vacant
|}

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...

:
- Thomas J. Claggett, Episcopalian
- Edward Gantt
  Edward Gantt
  Edward Gantt was an Episcopal clergyman who served as Chaplain of the Senate of the United States .-Early life:Edward Gantt was born in Prince George's County, Maryland in 1746, the son of Mary and Thomas Gantt IV...
  
  , Episcopalian, elected December 9, 1801
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
Massachusetts
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...
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

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...

: William Parkinson, 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 7, 1801
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
Virginia
The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...

, December 7, 1801
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...

: 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:*...

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