23rd United States Congress - political parties

[
thumb|right|275px|United States Capitol] The Twenty-third United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, DC from March 4 1833 to March 3 1835, during the first two years of the second administration of U.S. President Andrew Jackson.

The apportionment of seats in this House of Representatives was based on the Fifth Census of the United States in 1830. The Senate had an Anti-Jacksonian or National Republican majority, and the House had a Jacksonian or Democratic majority.

This article supplements the main article with a list of the members by political party.

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The list below is arranged by chamber, then by political party. Members are shown in alphabetical order.

Dates of sessions

March 4 1833 - March 3 1835
*First session: December 2 1833 - June 30 1834
*Second session: December 1 1834 - March 3 1835 — a lame duck sessionPrevious congress: "22nd Congress"
Next congress: "24th Congress"

Party summary

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Senators were elected by the state legislatures every two years, with one-third beginning new six year terms with each Congress.

=Democratic=

:A-F
* Thomas H. Benton (1782-1858), "Missouri"
* George M. Bibb (1776-1859), "Kentucky"
* Bedford Brown (1795-1870), "North Carolina"
* James Buchanan (1791-1868), "Pennsylvania" …elected to fill vacancy, December 6 1834.
* Alexander Buckner (1785-1833), "Missouri" …died June 6 1833.
* Alfred Cuthbert (1785-1856), "Georgia" …elected to fill vacancy, January 12 1835.
* John Forsyth (1780-1841), "Georgia" …resigned July 27 1834.:G-L
* Felix Grundy (1777-1840), "Tennessee"
* Isaac Hill (1789-1851), "New Hampshire"
* Elias K. Kane (1794-1835), "Illinois"
* John P. King (1799-1888), "Georgia" …elected to fill vacancy, November 21 1833.
* William R. D. King (1786-1853), "Alabama"
* Lewis F. Linn (1796-1843), "Missouri" …appointed to fill vacancy, October 25 1833, subsequently elected.:M-R
* Samuel McKean (1787-1841), "Pennsylvania" …elected to fill vacancy in class, December 7 1833.
* Thomas Morris (1776-1844), "Ohio"
* William C. Rives (1793-1868), "Virginia" …resigned February 22 1834.
* John M. Robinson (1794-1843), "Illinois"
* John Ruggles (1789-1874), "Maine" …elected to fill vacancy, January 20 1835.:S-Z
* Ether Shepley (1789-1877), "Maine"
* Nathaniel P. Tallmadge (1795-1864), "New York"
* John Tipton (1786-1839), "Indiana"
* George M. Troup (1780-1856), "Georgia" …resigned November 8 1833.
* Hugh Lawson White (1773-1840), "Tennessee"
* William Wilkins (1779-1865), "Pennsylvania" …resigned June 30 1834.
* Silas Wright, Jr. (1795-1847), "New York"

National Republican

:A-F
* Samuel Bell (1770-1850), "New Hampshire"
* John Black ( -1854), "Mississippi" …elected to fill vacancy in class, November 22 1833.
* Ezekiel F. Chambers (1788-1867), "Maryland" …resigned in 1834.
* Henry Clay (1777-1852), "Kentucky"
* John M. Clayton (1796-1856), "Delaware"
* Thomas Ewing (1789-1871), "Ohio"
* Theodore Frelinghuysen (1787-1862), "New Jersey" :G-L
* Robert H. Goldsborough (1779-1836), "Maryland" …elected to fill vacancy, January 13 1835.
* William Hendricks (1782-1850), "Indiana"
* Josiah S. Johnston (1784-1833), "Louisiana" …died May 19 1833.
* Joseph Kent (1779-1837), "Maryland"
* Nehemiah R. Knight (1780-1854), "Rhode Island"
* Benjamin W. Leigh (1781-1849), "Virginia" …elected to fill vacancy, February 26 1834.:M-R
* Willie P. Mangum (1792-1861), "North Carolina"
* Gabriel Moore (1785-1845), "Alabama"
* Arnold Naudain (1790-1872), "Delaware"
* George Poindexter (1779-1853), "Mississippi"
* Alexander Porter (1785-1844), "Louisiana" …elected to fill vacancy, December 19 1833.
* Samuel Prentiss (1782-1857), "Vermont"
* Asher Robbins (1757-1845), "Rhode Island" :S-Z
* Nathaniel Silsbee (1773-1850), "Massachusetts"
* Nathan Smith (1770-1835), "Connecticut"
* Samuel L. Southard (1787-1842), "New Jersey"
* Peleg Sprague (1793-1880), "Maine" …resigned January 1 1835.
* Benjamin Swift (1781-1847), "Vermont"
* Gideon Tomlinson (1780-1854), "Connecticut"
* John Tyler (1790-1862), "Virginia"
* George A. Waggaman (1782-1843), "Louisiana"
* Daniel Webster (1782-1852), "Massachusetts"

=Nullifier=

* John C. Calhoun (1782-1850), "South Carolina"
* William C. Preston (1794-1860), "South Carolina" …elected to fill vacancy from preceding Congress, November 26 1833.

House of Representatives

Members of the House of Representatives were elected by popular vote, variously to single member districts or at-large.

=Democratic=

:A-B-C
* John Adams (1778-1854), "New York"
* William Allen (1803-1879), "Ohio"
* Joseph B. Anthony (1795-1851), "Pennsylvania"
* William S. Archer (1789-1855), "Virginia"
* James M. H. Beale (1786-1866), "Virginia"
* Benning M. Bean (1782-1866), "New Hampshire"
* Samuel Beardsley (1790-1860), "New York"
* Andrew Beaumont (1790-1853), "Pennsylvania"
* John Bell (1797-1869), "Tennessee"
* James Blair (1790c-1834), "South Carolina" …died April 1 1834.
* John Blair (1790-1863), "Tennessee"
* Abraham Bockee (1784-1865), "New York"
* Charles Bodle (1787-1835), "New York"
* Ratliff Boon (1781-1844), "Indiana"
* James W. Bouldin (1792-1854), "Virginia" …elected to fill vacancy, seated March 28 1834.
* Thomas T. Bouldin (1781-1834), "Virginia" …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 2 1833, died February 11 1834.
* John W. Brown (1796-1875), "New York"
* Samuel Bunch (1786-1849), "Tennessee"
* Robert Burns (1792-1866), "New Hampshire"
* Jesse A. Bynum (1797-1868), "North Carolina"
* Harry Cage ( -1859), "Mississippi"
* Churchill C. Cambreleng (1786-1862), "New York"
* Richard B. Carmichael (1807-1884), "Maryland"
* John Carr (1793-1845), "Indiana"
* Zadok Casey (1796-1862), "Illinois"
* John Chaney (1790-1881), "Ohio"
* Joseph W. Chinn (1798-1840), "Virginia"
* Nathaniel H. Claiborne (1777-1859), "Virginia"
* Samuel Clark (1800-1870), "New York"
* Clement C. Clay (1789-1866), "Alabama"
* Augustin S. Clayton (1783-1839), "Georgia"
* John E. Coffee (1782-1836), "Georgia"
* Henry W. Connor (1793-1866), "North Carolina"
* Richard Coulter (1788-1852), "Pennsylvania"
* John Cramer (1779-1870), "New York" :D-E-F
* Rowland Day (1779-1853), "New York"
* Philemon Dickerson (1788-1862), "New Jersey"
* David W. Dickinson (1808-1845), "Tennessee"
* Joseph Duncan (1794-1844), "Illinois" …resigned September 21 1834.
* William C. Dunlap (1798-1872), "Tennessee" :G-H-I
* Charles G. Ferris (1796c-1848), "New York" …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 1 1834.
* John B. Forester ( -1845), "Tennessee"
* Thomas F. Foster (1790-1848), "Georgia"
* Samuel Fowler (1779-1844), "New Jersey"
* William K. Fuller (1792-1883), "New York"
* John H. Fulton ( -1836), "Virginia"
* John Galbraith (1794-1860), "Pennsylvania"
* Roger L. Gamble (1787-1847), "Georgia"
* Ransom H. Gillet (1800-1876), "New York"
* George R. Gilmer (1790-1859), "Georgia"
* William F. Gordon (1787-1858), "Virginia"
* Joseph Hall (1793-1859), "Maine"
* Thomas H. Hall (1773-1853), "North Carolina"
* Nicoll Halsey (1782-1865), "New York"
* Thomas L. Hamer (1800-1846), "Ohio"
* Edward A. Hannegan "Indiana"
* Joseph M. Harper (1787-1865), "New Hampshire"
* Samuel S. Harrison (1780-1853), "Pennsylvania"
* Samuel G. Hathaway (1780-1867), "New York"
* Albert G. Hawes (1804-1849), "Kentucky"
* Micajah T. Hawkins (1790-1858), "North Carolina"
* James P. Heath (1777-1854), "Maryland"
* Joseph Henderson (1791-1863), "Pennsylvania"
* Edward Howell (1792-1871), "New York"
* Henry Hubbard (1784-1857), "New Hampshire"
* Abel Huntington (1777-1858), "New York"
* William M. Inge (1802-1846), "Tennessee" :J-K-L
* Leonard Jarvis (1781-1854), "Maine"
* Cave Johnson (1793-1866), "Tennessee"
* Noadiah Johnson (1795-1839), "New York"
* Richard M. Johnson (1780-1850), "Kentucky"
* Benjamin Jones (1787-1861), "Ohio"
* Seaborn Jones (1788-1864), "Georgia"
* Edward Kavanagh (1795-1844), "Maine"
* Daniel Kilgore (1793-1851), "Ohio" …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 1 1834.
* Henry King (1790-1861), "Pennsylvania"
* George L. Kinnard (1803-1836), "Indiana"
* Amos Lane (1778-1849), "Indiana"
* Gerrit Y. Lansing (1783-1862), "New York"
* John Laporte (1798-1862), "Pennsylvania"
* Cornelius V. Lawrence (1791-1861), "New York" …resigned May 14 1834.
* Luke Lea (1783-1851), "Tennessee"
* Humphrey H. Leavitt (1796-1873), "Ohio" …resigned July 10 1834.
* Thomas Lee (1780-1856), "New Jersey"
* George Loyall (1789-1868), "Virginia"
* Edward Lucas (1780-1858), "Virginia"
* Chittenden Lyon (1787-1842), "Kentucky"
* Robert T. Lytle (1804-1839), "Ohio" …resigned March 10 1834, elected to fill vacancy, seated December 27 1834.:M-N-O
* Abijah Mann, Jr. (1793-1868), "New York"
* Joel K. Mann (1780-1857), "Pennsylvania"
* Richard I. Manning (1789-1836), "South Carolina" …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 8 1834.
* Samuel W. Mardis (1800-1836), "Alabama"
* John Y. Mason (1799-1859), "Virginia"
* Moses Mason, Jr. (1789-1866), "Maine"
* William L. May (1793c-1849), "Illinois" …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 1 1834.
* Johnathan McCarty (1795-1852), "Indiana"
* William McComas (1795-1865), "Virginia"
* Rufus McIntire (1784-1866), "Maine"
* James I. McKay (1793-1853), "North Carolina"
* Isaac McKim (1775-1838), "Maryland"
* John McKinley (1780-1852), "Alabama"
* Jeremiah McLene (1767-1837), "Ohio"
* Charles McVean (1802-1848), "New York"
* Jesse Miller (1800-1850), "Pennsylvania"
* Henry Mitchell (1784-1856), "New York"
* Robert Mitchell (1778-1848), "Ohio"
* John J. Morgan (1770-1849), "New York" …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 1 1834.
* Henry A. P. Muhlenberg (1782-1844), "Pennsylvania"
* John Murphy (1786-1841), "Alabama"
* Gayton P. Osgood (1797-1861), "Massachusetts" :P-Q-R
* Sherman Page (1779-1853), "New York"
* James Parker (1776-1868), "New Jersey"
* Gorham Parks (1794-1877), "Maine"
* William Patterson (1790-1868), "Ohio"
* John M. Patton (1797-1858), "Virginia"
* Balie Peyton (1803-1878), "Tennessee"
* Franklin Pierce (1804-1869), "New Hampshire"
* Job Pierson (1791-1860), "New York"
* Franklin E. Plummer ( -1847), "Mississippi"
* James K. Polk (1795-1849), "Tennessee"
* Patrick H. Pope (1806-1841), "Kentucky"
* Robert Ramsey (1780-1849), "Pennsylvania"
* John Randolph (1773-1833), "Virginia" …died May 24 1833.
* John Reynolds (1788-1865), "Illinois" …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 1 1834.:S-T-U-V
* Ferdinand S. Schenck (1790-1860), "New Jersey"
* William Schley (1786-1858), "Georgia"
* Dudley Selden ( -1855), "New York" …resigned July 1 1834.
* William N. Shinn (1782-1871), "New Jersey"
* Charles Slade ( -1834), "Illinois" …died July 26 1834.
* Francis O. J. Smith (1806-1876), "Maine"
* Jesse Speight (1795-1847), "North Carolina"
* James I. Standifer (1782-1837), "Tennessee"
* Andrew Stevenson (1784-1857), "Virginia" …resigned June 2 1834.
* John T. Stoddert (1790-1870), "Maryland"
* Joel B. Sutherland (1792-1861), "Pennsylvania"
* William Taylor (1791-1865), "New York"
* Francis Thomas (1799-1876), "Maryland"
* John Thomson (1780-1852), "Ohio"
* James Turner (1783-1861), "Maryland"
* Joel Turrill (1794-1859), "New York"
* Isaac B. Van Houten (1776-1850), "New York"
* Aaron Vanderpoel (1799-1870), "New York"
* David D. Wagener (1792-1860), "Pennsylvania" :W-X-Y-Z
* Aaron Ward (1790-1867), "New York"
* Daniel Wardwell (1791-1878), "New York"
* James M. Wayne (1790-1867), "Georgia" …resigned January 13 1835.
* Taylor Webster (1800-1876), "Ohio"
* Reuben Whallon (1776-1843), "New York"
* Campbell P. White (1787-1859), "New York"
* Richard Henry Wilde (1789-1847), "Georgia"
* Henry A. Wise (1806-1876), "Virginia"

National Republican

:A-B-C
* Chilton Allan (1786-1858), "Kentucky"
* Heman Allen (1777-1844), "Vermont"
* John J. Allen (1797-1871), "Virginia"
* William H. Ashley (1778-1838), "Missouri"
* Noyes Barber (1781-1844), "Connecticut"
* Daniel L. Barringer (1788-1852), "North Carolina"
* Isaac C. Bates (1779-1845), "Massachusetts"
* William Baylies (1776-1865), "Massachusetts"
* Martin Beaty (1784-1856), "Kentucky"
* James M. Bell (1796-1849), "Ohio"
* Horace Binney (1780-1875), "Pennsylvania"
* George N. Briggs (1796-1861), "Massachusetts"
* John Bull (1803-1863), "Missouri"
* Henry A. Bullard (1788-1851), "Louisiana" …resigned January 4 1834.
* George Burd (1793-1844), "Pennsylvania"
* Tristam Burges (1770-1853), "Rhode Island"
* Thomas Chilton (1798-1854), "Kentucky"
* Rufus Choate (1799-1859), "Massachusetts" …resigned June 30 1834.
* Thomas Corwin (1794-1865), "Ohio"
* Joseph H. Crane (1782-1851), "Ohio"
* David Crockett (1786-1836), "Tennessee" :D-E-F
* Thomas Davenport ( -1838), "Virginia"
* Amos Davis (1794-1835), "Kentucky"
* John Davis (1787-1854), "Massachusetts" …resigned January 14 1834.
* Edmund Deberry (1787-1859), "North Carolina"
* Littleton P. Dennis (1786-1834), "Maryland" …died April 14 1834.
* William W. Ellsworth (1791-1868), "Connecticut" …resigned July 8 1834.
* George Evans (1797-1867), "Maine"
* Edward Everett (1794-1865), "Massachusetts"
* Horace Everett (1779-1851), "Vermont"
* John Ewing (1789-1858), "Indiana"
* Samuel A. Foote (1780-1846), "Connecticut" …resigned May 9 1834.:G-H-I
* Rice Garland (1795c-1861), "Louisiana" …elected to fill vacancy, seated April 28 1834.
* James H. Gholson (1798-1848), "Virginia"
* Benjamin Gorham (1775-1855), "Massachusetts"
* James Graham (1793-1851), "North Carolina"
* George J. Grennell, Jr. (1786-1877), "Massachusetts"
* Hiland Hall (1795-1885), "Vermont"
* Benjamin Hardin (1784-1852), "Kentucky"
* James Harper (1780-1873), "Pennsylvania"
* Jabez W. Huntington (1788-1847), "Connecticut" …resigned August 16 1834.:J-K-L
* Ebenezer Jackson, Jr. (1796-1874), "Connecticut" …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 1 1834.
* Henry Johnson (1783-1864), "Louisiana" …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 1 1834.
* William Cost Johnson (1806-1860), "Maryland"
* Robert P. Letcher (1788-1861), "Kentucky"
* Levi Lincoln, Jr. (1782-1868), "Massachusetts" …elected to fill vacancy, seated March 5 1834.
* James Love (1795-1874), "Kentucky" :M-N-O
* Thomas A. Marshall (1794-1871), "Kentucky"
* Charles F. Mercer (1778-1858), "Virginia"
* John J. Milligan (1795-1875), "Delaware"
* Phineas Miner (1777-1839), "Connecticut" …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 1 1834.
* Samuel M. Moore (1796-1875), "Virginia" :P-Q-R
* Stephen C. Phillips (1801-1857), "Massachusetts" …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 1 1834.
* John Reed, Jr. (1781-1860), "Massachusetts"
* Abraham Rencher (1798-1883), "North Carolina"
* John Robertson (1787-1873), "Virginia" …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 8 1834.:S-T-U-V
* William B. Shepard (1799-1852), "North Carolina"
* Augustine H. Shepperd (1792-1864), "North Carolina"
* David Spangler (1796-1856), "Ohio"
* John N. Steele (1796-1853), "Maryland" …elected to fill vacancy, seated June 9 1834.
* William P. Taylor ( - ), "Virginia"
* Philemon Thomas (1763-1847), "Louisiana"
* Christopher Tompkins (1780-1858), "Kentucky"
* Joseph Trumbull (1782-1861), "Connecticut" …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 1 1834.
* Samuel Tweedy (1776-1868), "Connecticut"
* Joseph Vance (1786-1852), "Ohio"
* Samuel F. Vinton (1792-1862), "Ohio" :W-X-Y-Z
* John G. Watmough (1793-1861), "Pennsylvania"
* Edward D. White (1795-1847), "Louisiana" …resigned November 15 1834.
* Lewis Williams (1782-1842), "North Carolina"
* Edgar C. Wilson (1800-1860), "Virginia"
* Ebenezer Young (1783-1851), "Connecticut"

Anti-Masonic

:A-L
* John Quincy Adams (1767-1848), "Massachusetts"
* John Banks (1793-1864), "Pennsylvania"
* Charles A. Barnitz (1780-1850), "Pennsylvania"
* George Chambers (1786-1866), "Pennsylvania"
* William Clark (1774-1851), "Pennsylvania"
* Edward Darlington (1795-1884), "Pennsylvania"
* Benjamin F. Deming (1790-1834), "Vermont" …died July 11 1834.
* Harmar Denny (1794-1852), "Pennsylvania"
* John Dickson (1783-1852), "New York"
* Millard Fillmore (1800-1874), "New York"
* Philo C. Fuller (1787-1855), "New York"
* Gideon Hard (1797-1885), "New York"
* Abner Hazeltine (1793-1879), "New York"
* William Hiester (1790-1853), "Pennsylvania"
* Henry F. Janes (1792-1879), "Vermont" …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 2 1834.
* William Jackson (1783-1855), "Massachusetts"
* George W. Lay (1798-1860), "New York" :M-Z
* Henry C. Martindale (1780-1860), "New York"
* Thomas M. T. McKennan (1794-1852), "Pennsylvania"
* Dutee J. Pearce (1789-1849), "Rhode Island"
* David Potts, Jr. (1794c-1863), "Pennsylvania"
* William Slade (1786-1859), "Vermont"
* Jonathan Sloane (1785-1854), "Ohio"
* Andrew Stewart (1791-1872), "Pennsylvania"
* Elisha Whittlesey (1783-1863), "Ohio"
* Frederick Whittlesey (1799-1851), "New York"

=Nullifier=

:A-Z
* Robert B. Campbell ( -1862), "South Carolina" …elected to fill vacancy, seated February 27 1834.
* William K. Clowney (1797-1851), "South Carolina"
* Warren R. Davis (1793-1835), "South Carolina" …died January 29 1835.
* John M. Felder (1782-1851), "South Carolina"
* William J. Grayson (1788-1863), "South Carolina"
* John K. Griffin (1789-1841), "South Carolina"
* Dixon H. Lewis (1802-1848), "Alabama"
* George McDuffie (1790-1851), "South Carolina" …resigned in 1834.
* Francis W. Pickens (1805-1869), "South Carolina" …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 8 1834.
* Henry L. Pinckney (1794-1863), "South Carolina"
* Thomas D. Singleton ( -1833), "South Carolina" …died November 25 1833.

References

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*cite book|title = The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts|last = Martis|first = Kenneth C.|authorlink =|coauthors =|year = 1982|publisher = Macmillan Publishing Company|location = New York|id =

External links

* [http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwsllink.html Statutes at Large, 1789-1875]
* [http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwsjlink.html Senate Journal, First Forty-three Sessions of Congress]
* [http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwhjlink.html#anchor2 House Journal, First Forty-three Sessions of Congress]
* [http://www.gpoaccess.gov/serialset/cdocuments/hd108-222/index.html Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress]
* [http://clerk.house.gov/art_history/house_history/index.html U.S. House of Representatives: House History]
* [http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/reference/two_column_table/stats_and_lists.htm U.S. Senate: Statistics and Lists]