Membership of the 12th Congress of the United States

 

March 4, 1811 to March 3, 1813

 

First Session:  November 4, 1811 to July 6, 1812

Second Session:  November 2, 1812 to March 3, 1813

 

Vice President of the United States:

George Clinton (New York)

President Pro Tempore of the Senate:

William H. Crawford (Georgia)

Secretary of the Senate:

Samuel A. Otis (Massachusetts)

Sergeant At Arms of the Senate:

James Mathers (New York)
Mountjoy Bayly (Maryland), from November 6, 1811

 

 

Speaker of the House of Representatives: 

Henry Clay (Kentucky)

Clerk of the House:

Patrick Magruder (Maryland)

Sergeant At Arms of the House:

Thomas Dunn (Maryland)

Doorkeeper of the House: 

Thomas Claxton

 

Connecticut

 

Senators

 

Chauncey Goodrich

Samuel Dana

 

Representatives At Large

 

John Davenport

Benjamin Tallmadge

Epaphroditus Champion

Jonathan O. Moseley

Timothy Pitkin

Lewis Burr Sturges

Lyman Law

 

Delaware

 

Senators

 

James Asheton Bayard (resigned March 3, 1813)

Outerbridge Horsey

 

Representative At Large

 

Henry M. Ridgely

 

Georgia

 

Senators

 

William H. Crawford

Charles Tait

 

Representatives At Large

 

William Bibb

Howell Cobb (resigned October 1812)

William Barnett (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Howell Cobb; served from October 5, 1812)

Bolling Hall

George M. Troup

 

Kentucky

 

Senators

 

John Pope

George M. Bibb

 

Representatives

 

 

District 1:

Anthony New

District 2:

Samuel McKee

District 3:

Stephen Ormsby

District 4:

Richard M. Johnson

District 5:

Henry Clay

District 6:

Joseph Desha

 

Louisiana (admitted as a state April 30, 1812)

 

Senators

 

Allan B. Magruder (served from September 3, 1812)

Jean Noel Destréhan (served from September 3, 1812; resigned October 1, 1812, never having qualified)

Thomas Posey (appointed to fill vacancy caused by resignation of
Jean Destréhan; served from December 7, 1812 to February 4, 1813, when James Brown was elected)

James Brown (elected to fill vacancy caused by resignation of Jean Destréhan; served from February 5, 1813)

 

Representative At Large

 

Thomas B. Robertson (served from April 30, 1812)

 

Maryland

 

Senators

 

Samuel Smith

Phillip Reed

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Philip Stuart 

District 2:

Joseph Kent

District 3:

Philip Barton Key

District 4:

Samuel Ringgold

District 5*:

Alexander McKim

Peter Little

District 6:

John Montgomery (resigned April 29, 1811 to become Attorney General of Maryland)

Stevenson Archer (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Montgomery; served from October 26, 1811)

District 7:

Robert Wright

District 8:

Charles Goldsborough

 

* Two-member district

 

Massachusetts

 

Senators

 

James Lloyd

Joseph B. Varnum (elected to fill the vacancy in the term commencing March 4, 1811 caused by the failure of the legislature to elect; served from June 29, 1811)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Josiah Quincy 

District 2:

William Reed

District 3:

Leonard White

District 4:

Joseph B. Varnum (resigned June 29, 1811 to become Senator)

William M. Richardson (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Joseph B. Varnum; served from November 4, 1811)

District 5:

William Ely

District 6:

Samuel Taggart

District 7:

Charles Turner, Jr.

District 8:

Isaiah L. Green

District 9:

Laban Wheaton

District 10:

Elijah Brigham

District 11:

Abijah Bigelow

District 12:

Ezekiel Bacon

District 13:

Ebenezer Seaver

District 14:

Richard Cutts

District 15:

William Widgery

District 16:

Peleg Tallman

District 17:

Barzillai Gannett (resigned 1812)

Francis Carr (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Barzillai Gannett; served from April 6, 1812)

 

New Hampshire

 

Senators

 

Nicholas Gilman

Charles Cutts

 

Representatives At Large

 

Josiah Bartlett, Jr. 

Samuel Dinsmore

Obed Hall

John A. Harper

George Sullivan

 

New Jersey

 

Senators

 

John Lambert

John Condit

 

Representatives At Large

 

Adam Boyd 

Lewis Condict

Jacob Hufty

George C. Maxwell

James Morgan

Thomas Newbold

 

New York

 

Senators

 

John Smith

Obadiah German

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Ebenezer Sage 

District 2*:

William Paulding

Samuel L. Mitchill

District 3:

Pierre Van Cortlandt, Jr.

District 4:

James Emott

District 5:

Thomas B. Cooke

District 6†:

 

Asa Fitch

Robert L. Livingston (resigned May 6, 1812)

Thomas P. Grosvenor (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Robert L. Livingston; served from January 29, 1813)

District 7:

Harmanus Bleecker

District 8:

Benjamin Pond

District 9:

Thomas Sammons

District 10:

Silas Stow

District 11:

Thomas R. Gold

District 12:

Arunah Metcalf

District 13:

Uri Tracy

District 14:

Daniel Avery

District 15:

Peter Buell Porter

 

* Two-member district

† Two-member district
 

North Carolina

 

Senators

 

James Turner

Jesse Franklin

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Lemuel Sawyer 

District 2:

Willis Alston

District 3:

Thomas Blount (died February 7, 1812)

 

William Kennedy (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Thomas Blount; served from January 30, 1813)

District 4:

William Blackledge

District 5:

William R. King

District 6:

Nathaniel Macon

District 7:

Archibald McBryde

District 8:

Richard Stanford

District 9:

James Cochran

District 10:

Joseph Pearson

District 11:

Israel Pickens

District 12:

Meshack Franklin

 

Ohio

 

Senators

 

Alexander Campbell

Thomas Worthington

 

Representative At Large

 

Jeremiah Morrow

 

Pennsylvania

 

Senators

 

Andrew Gregg

Michael Leib

 

Representatives

 

District 1*:

 

 

Adam Seybart 

James Milnor

William Anderson

District 2†:

 

 

Jonathan Roberts

Robert Brown

William Rodman

District 3‡:

 

 

Roger Davis

John Hyneman

Joseph Lefever

District 4#:

 

David Bard

Robert Whitehill

District 5:

George Smith

District 6:

William Crawford

District 7:

William Piper

District 8:

William Findley

District 9:

John Smilie (died December 30, 1812)

District 10:

Aaron Lyle

District 11:

Abner Lacock (re-elected to the 13th Congress but resigned, having been elected Senator)

 

* Three-member district

† Three-member district

‡ Three-member district

# Two-member district

 

Rhode Island

 

Senators

 

Christopher Grant Champlin (resigned October 2, 1811)

Jeremiah B. Howell

William Hunter (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Christopher G. Champlin; served from October 28, 1811)

 

Representatives At Large

 

Richard Jackson, Jr.

Elisha R. Potter

 

South Carolina

 

Senators

 

John Galliard

John Taylor

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Langdon Cheves 

District 2:

William Butler

District 3:

David R. Williams

District 4:

William Lowndes

District 5:

Richard Winn

District 6:

John C. Calhoun

District 7:

Thomas Moore

District 8:

Elias Earle

 

Tennessee

 

Senators

 

Joseph Anderson

Jenkin Whiteside (resigned October 8, 1811)

George Washington Campbell (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Jenkin Whiteside; served from October 8, 1811)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

John Rhea

District 2:

John Sevier

District 3:

Felix Grundy

 

Vermont

 

Senators

 

Stephen R. Bradley

Jonathan Robinson

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Samuel Shaw

District 2:

John H. Hubbard

District 3:

William Chamberlain

District 4:

Martin Chittenden

 

Virginia

 

Senators

 

William B. Giles

Richard Brent

 

Representative

 

District 1:

Thomas Wilson 

District 2:

John Baker

District 3:

John Smith

District 4:

William McCoy

District 5:

John Breckinridge

District 6:

Daniel Sheffey

District 7:

Joseph Lewis, Jr

District 8:

 

John P. Hungerford (succeeded November 29, 1811 by John Taliaferro, who contested the election)

John Taliaferro (successfully challenged the election of John P. Hungerford; served from November 29, 1811)

District 9:

Aylett Hawes

District 10:

John Dawson

District 11:

John Roane

District 12:

Burwell Basset

District 13:

William A. Burwell

District 14:

Matthew Clay

District 15:

John Randolph of Roanoke

District 16:

James Pleasants

District 17:

Thomas Gholson, Jr.

District 18:

Peterson Goodwyn

District 19:

Edwin Gray

District 20:

Thomas Newton, Jr.

District 21:

Hugh Nelson

District 22:

John Clopton

 

Illinois Territory

 

Delegate

 

Shadrack Bond (served from December 3, 1812)

 

Indiana Territory

 

Delegate

 

Jonathan Jennings

 

Missouri Territory

 

Delegate

 

Edward Hempstead (served from November 9, 1812)

 

Mississippi Territory

 

Delegate

 

George Poindexter