Membership of the 14th Congress of the United States
 
March 4, 1815 to March 3, 1817
 
First Session:  December 4, 1815 to April 30, 1816
Second Session:  December 2, 1816 to March 3, 1817
 

Vice President of the United States

Vacant

President Pro Tempore of the Senate: 

John Gaillard (South Carolina)

Secretary of the Senate: 

Charles Cutts (New Hampshire)

Sergeant At Arms of the Senate: 

Mountjoy Bayly (Maryland)

 

 

Speaker of the House of Representatives: 

Henry Clay (Kentucky)

Clerk of the House: 

Thomas Dougherty (Kentucky)

Sergeant At Arms of the House: 

Thomas Dunn (Maryland)

Doorkeeper of the House: 

Thomas Claxton

 

Connecticut

 

Senators

 

Samuel Dana

David Daggett

 

Representatives At Large

 

John Davenport

Benjamin Tallmadge

Epaphroditus Champion

Jonathan O. Moseley

Timothy Pitkin

Lewis Burr Sturges

Lyman Law

 

Delaware

 

Senators

 

Outerbridge Horsey

William Wells

 

Representatives At Large

 

Thomas Cooper

Thomas Clayton

 

Georgia

 

Senators

 

Charles Tait

William W. Bibb (resigned November 9, 1816 to become Territorial Governor of the Alabama Territory)

George M. Troup (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William W. Bibb; served from November 13, 1816)

 

Representatives At Large

 

Bolling Hall

John Forsyth

Thomas Telfair

Wilson Lumpkin

Alfred Cuthbert (resigned November 9, 1816)

Zadock Cook (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Alfred Cuthbert; served from December 2, 1816)

Richard Wilde

 

Indiana (admitted as a state December 11, 1816)

 

Senators

 

James Noble (served from December 11, 1816)

Waller Taylor (served from December 11, 1816)

 

Representative At Large

 

William Hendricks (served from December 11, 1816)

 

Kentucky

 

Senators

 

William T. Barry (resigned May 1, 1816 to become judge of the circuit court for the eleventh district of Kentucky )

Isham Talbot

Martin D. Hardin (appointed and subsequently elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William T. Barry; served from November 13, 1816)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

James Clark (resigned April 8, 1816)

Thomas Fletcher (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James Clark; served from  December 2, 1816)

District 2:

Henry Clay

District 3:

Richard M. Johnson

District 4:

Joseph Desha

District 5:

Alney McLean

District 6:

Solomon Sharp

District 7:

Samuel McKee

District 8:

Stephen Ormsby

District 9:

Mica Taul

District 10:

Benjamin Hardin

 

Louisiana

 

Senators

 

James Brown

Eligius Fromentin

 

Representative At Large

 

Thomas B. Robertson

 

Maryland

 

Senators

 

Robert H. Goldsborough

Robert G. Harper (elected for the term beginning March 4, 1815; served from January 1816; resigned December 1816)

Alexander Hanson (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Robert G. Harper; served from December 20, 1816)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Philip Stuart 
District 2: John C. Herbert
District 3:

 

Alexander C. Hanson (resigned 1816)
George Peter (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Alexander C. Hanson; served from October 7, 1816)
District 4: George Baer, Jr.
District 5*:

 

William Pinkney (resigned April 18, 1816 to become Minister Plenipotentiary to Russia)
Peter Little (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William Pinkney; served from September 2, 1816)
Nicholas R. Moore (resigned 1815 before Congress convened)
Samuel Smith (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Nicholas R. Moore; served from January 31, 1816)
District 6: Stevenson Archer
District 7: Robert Wright
District 8: Charles Goldsborough
 
* Two-member district
 

Massachusetts

 

Senators

 

Joseph B. Varnum

Christopher Gore (resigned May 30, 1816)

Eli Porter Ashmun (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Christopher Gore; served from June 12, 1816)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Artemas Ward, Jr
District 2: Timothy Pickering
District 3: Jeremiah Nelson
District 4: Asahel Stearns
District 5: Elijah H. Mills
District 6: Samuel Taggart
District 7: John W. Hurlbert
District 8: William Baylies
District 9: John Reed
District 10: Laban Wheaton
District 11: Elijah Brigham (died February 22, 1816)
Benjamin Adams (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Elijah Brigham; served from December 2, 1816)
District 12: Solomon Strong
District 13: Nathaniel Ruggles
District 14: Cyrus King
District 15: George Bradbury
District 16: Benjamin Brown
District 17: James Carr
District 18: Thomas Rice
District 19: Samuel S. Conner
District 20: Albion K. Parris
 

New Hampshire

 

Senators

 

Jeremiah Mason

Thomas W. Thompson

 

Representatives At Large

 

Charles H. Atherton
Bradbury Cilley
William Hale
Roger Vose
Daniel Webster
Jeduthun Wilcox
 

New Jersey

 

Senators

 

John Condit 

James J. Wilson

 

Representatives At Large

 

Lewis Condict
Thomas Ward
Benjamin Bennet
Henry Southard
Ezra Baker
Ephraim Bateman
 

New York

 

Senators

 

Rufus King

Nathan Sanford

 

Representatives

 

District 1*: Henry Crocheron
George Townsend
District 2†: William Irving
Peter H. Wendover
District 3: Jonathan Ward
District 4: Abraham H. Schenck
District 5: Thomas P. Grosvenor
District 6: Jonathan Fisk (resigned March, 1815 to become United States attorney for the southern district of New York)
James W. Wilkin (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Jonathan Fisk; served from June 7, 1815)
District 7: Samuel R. Betts
District 8: John Adams (succeeded December 26, 1815 by Erastus Root, who contested the election)
Erastus Root (successfully contested the election of John Adams; served from December 26, 1815)
District 9: John Lovett
District 10: Hosea Moffitt
District 11: John W. Taylor
District 12‡: John Savage
Asa Adgate (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Representative-elect Benjamin Pond; served from June 7, 1815)
District 13: John B. Yates
District 14: Daniel Cady
District 15: James Birdsall
Jabez D. Hammond
District 16: Thomas R. Gold
District 17: William S. Smith (succeeded December 13, 1815 by Westel Willoughby, Jr., who contested the election)
Westel Willoughby, Jr. (successfully contested the election of William S. Smith; served from December 13, 1815)
District 18: Moss Kent
District 19: Victory Birdseye
District 20#: Enos T. Throop (resigned June 4, 1816)
Daniel Avery (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Enos T. Throop; served from September 30, 1816)
Oliver C. Comstock
District 21§: Micah Brooks
Peter Buell Porter (resigned January 23, 1816)
Archibald S. Clarke (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Peter Buell Porter; served from December 2, 1816)
 
* Two-member district
† Two-member district
‡ Two-member district
# Two-member district
§ Two-member district
 

North Carolina

 

Senators

 

James Turner (resigned November 21, 1816 due to ill health)

Francis Locke (resigned December 5, 1815)

Nathaniel Macon (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Francis Locke; served from December 13, 1815)

Montfort Stokes (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James Turner and for the full term; served from December 4, 1816)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: William H. Murfree
District 2: Joseph H. Bryan
District 3: James W. Clark
District 4: William Gaston
District 5: William R. King (resigned November 4, 1816)
Charles Hooks (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William R. King; served from December 2, 1816)
District 6: Nathaniel Macon (resigned December 13, 1815 to become Senator)
Weldon N. Edwards (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Nathaniel Macon; served from February 7, 1816)
District 7: John Culpepper
District 8: Richard Stanford (died April 9, 1816)
Samuel Dickens (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Richard Stanford; served from December 2, 1816)
District 9: Bartlett Yancey
District 10: William C. Love
District 11: David M. Forney
District 12: Israel Pickens
District 13: Lewis Williams
 

Ohio

 

Senators

 

Jeremiah Morrow

Benjamin Ruggles

 

Representatives

 

District 1: John McLean (resigned 1816)
  William Henry Harrison (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John McLean; served from October 8, 1816)
District 2: John Alexander 
District 3: William Creighton, Jr.
District 4: James Caldwell
District 5: James Kilbourne
District 6: David Clendenin
 

Pennsylvania

 

Senators

 

Albert Lacock

Jonathan Roberts

 

Representatives

 

District 1*: Joseph Hopkinson 
William Milnor
Thomas Smith
Jonathan Williams (died May 16, 1815)
John Sergeant (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Jonathan Williams; served from October 10, 1815)
District 2†: William Darlington
John Hahn
District 3‡: Amos Ellmaker (resigned July 3, 1815 to become president judge of the twelfth judicial district)
James M. Wallace (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the declination of Amos Ellmaker to serve; served from October 10, 1815)
John Whiteside
District 4: Hugh Glasgow
District 5#:

William Crawford

William Maclay

District 6§: John Ross
Samuel D. Ingham
District 7: Joseph Hiester
District 8: William Piper
District 9: David Bard (died March 12, 1815)
Thomas Burnside (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of David Bard; served from October 10, 1815; resigned April, 1816)
William P. Maclay (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Thomas Burnside; served from October 8, 1816)
District 10¶: Jared Irwin
William Wilson
District 11: William Findley
District 12: Aaron Lyle
District 13: Isaac Griffin
District 14: John Woods (died December 16, 1816)
District 15: Thomas Wilson
 
* Four-member district
† Two-member district
‡ Two-member district
# Two-member district
§ Two-member district
¶ Two-member district
 

Rhode Island

 

Senators

 

Jeremiah B. Howell

William Hunter

 

Representatives At Large

 

John L. Boss, Jr.
James B. Mason
 

South Carolina

 

Senators

 

John Galliard

John Taylor (resigned November, 1816)

William Smith (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Taylor and for the term commencing March 4, 1817; served from December 4, 1816)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Henry Middleton
District 2: William Lowndes
District 3: Benjamin Huger
District 4: John J. Chappell
District 5: William Woodward
District 6: John C. Calhoun
District 7: John Taylor
District 8: Thomas Moore
District 9: William Mayrant (resigned October 21, 1816)
  Stephen Decatur Miller (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William Mayrant; served from January 2, 1817)
 

Tennessee

 

Senators

 

Jesse Wharton (resigned October 10, 1815, when John Williams was elected)

George Washington Campbell (elected for the six-year term beginning March 4, 1815; served from October 10, 1815)

John Williams (appointed to fill the vacancy in the regular term caused by a recess of the legislature; served from October 10, 1815)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Samuel Powell
District 2: John Sevier (died September 24, 1815)
  William G. Blount (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John Sevier; served from December 8, 1815)
District 3: Isaac Thomas
District 4: Bennett H. Henderson
District 5: Newton Cannon
District 6: James B. Reynolds
 

Vermont

 

Senators

 

Dudley Chase

Isaac Tichenor

 

Representatives At Large

 

Daniel Chipman (resigned May 5, 1816)
Luther Jewett
Chauncey Langdon
Asa Lyon
Charles Marsh
John Noyes
 

Virginia

 

Senators

 

James Barbour 

Armistead T. Mason (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William B. Giles in the previous Congress; served from January 3, 1816)

 

Representatives

 
District 1: John G. Jackson 
District 2: Magnus Tate
District 3: Henry St. George Tucker
District 4: William McCoy
District 5: John Breckinridge
District 6: Daniel Sheffey
District 7: Ballard Smith
District 8: Joseph Lewis, Jr
District 9: John P. Hungerford
District 10: Aylett Hawes
District 11: Philip P. Barbour
District 12: Robert S. Garnett
District 13: Burwell Basset 
District 14: William A. Burwell
District 15: Matthew Clay (died May 27, 1815 while making a speech at Halifax Court House, Halifax County, VA)
John Kerr (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Matthew Clay; served from October 30, 1815)
District 16: John Randolph of Roanoke
District 17: James Pleasants
District 18: Thomas Gholson, Jr. (died July 4, 1816 of wounds suffered in the War of 1812)
Thomas M. Nelson (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Thomas Gholson, Jr.; served from December 4, 1816)
District 19: Peterson Goodwyn
District 20: James Johnson
District 21: Thomas Newton, Jr.
District 22: Hugh Nelson
District 23: John Clopton (died September 11, 1816)
John Tyler (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John Clopton; served from December 17, 1816)
 

Illinois Territory

 

Delegate

 

Benjamin Stephenson (served until April 29, 1816)

Nathaniel Pope (served from December 2, 1816)

 

Indiana Territory

 

Delegate

 

Jonathan Jennings (served until December 11, 1816, when Indiana was admitted as a State)

 

Missouri Territory

 

Delegate

 

Rufus Easton (served until August 5, 1816)

John Scott (served from August 6, 1816 to January 13, 1817, when his election was declared illegal)

 

Mississippi Territory

 

Delegate

 

William Lattimore