Membership of the 15th Congress of the United States

Membership of the 15th Congress of the United States

March 4, 1817 to March 3, 1819

First Session: December 1, 1817 to April 20, 1818
Second Session: November 16, 1818 to March 3, 1819
Special Session of the Senate: March 4, 1817 to March 6, 1817

Vice President of the United States:	Daniel D. Tompkins (New York)
President Pro Tempore of the Senate:	John Gaillard (South Carolina) James Barbour (Virginia), from February 15, 1819
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

Jonathan O. Moseley

Timothy Pitkin

Uriel Holmes (resigned 1818)

Sylvester Gilbert (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Uriel Holmes; served from November 16, 1818)

Delaware

Senators

Outerbridge Horsey

Nicholas Van Dyke

Representatives At Large

Willard Hall

Louis McLane

Georgia

Senators

Charles Tait

George M. Troup (resigned September 23, 1818)

John Forsyth (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of George M. Troup; served from November 23, 1818 to February 17, 1819; resigned to become Minister to Spain)

Representatives At Large

John Forsyth (resigned November 23, 1818 to become Senator)

Robert R. Reid (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Forsyth; served from February 18, 1819)

Illinois (admitted as a state December 3, 1818)

Senators

Jesse B. Thomas (served from December 3, 1818)

Ninian Edwards (served from December 3, 1818)

Representative At Large

John McLean (served from December 3, 1818)

Indiana

Senators

James Noble

Waller Taylor

Representative At Large

William Hendricks

Kentucky

Senators

Isham Talbot
John J. Crittenden (resigned March 3, 1819)

Representatives

District 1:	David Trimble
District 2:	Henry Clay
District 3:	Richard M. Johnson
District 4:	Joseph Desha
District 5:	Anthony New
District 6:	David Walker
District 7:	George Robertson
District 8:	Richard C. Anderson, Jr.
District 9:	Tunstall Quarles
District 10:	Thomas Speed

Louisiana

Senators

Eligius Fromentin

William C. C. Claiborne (died November 23, 1817)

Henry Johnson (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William C. C. Claiborne; served from January 12, 1818)

Representatives At Large

Thomas B. Robertson (resigned April 20, 1818)

Thomas Butler (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Thomas B. Robertson; served from November 16, 1818)

Maryland

Senators

Robert H. Goldsborough
Alexander Hanson

Representatives

District 1:	Philip Stuart
District 2:	John C. Herbert
District 3:	George Peter
District 4:	Samuel Ringgold
District 5*:	Peter Little
	Samuel Smith
District 6:	Philip Reed
District 7:	Thomas Culbreth
District 8:	Thomas Bayly

* Two-member district

Massachusetts

Senators

Eli Porter Ashmun (resigned May 10, 1818)
Harrison Gray Otis
Prentiss Mellen (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Eli Ashmun; served from June 5, 1818)

Representatives

District 1:	Jonathan Mason
District 2:	Nathaniel Silsbee
District 3:	Jeremiah Nelson
District 4:	Timothy Fuller
District 5:	Elijah H. Mills
District 6:	Samuel C. Allen
District 7:	Henry Shaw
District 8:	Zabdiel Sampson
District 9:	Walter Folger, Jr
District 10:	Marcus Morton
District 11:	Benjamin Adams
District 12:	Solomon Strong
District 13:	Nathaniel Ruggles
District 14:	John Holmes
District 15:	Ezekiel Whitman
District 16:	Benjamin Orr
District 17:	John Wilson
District 18:	Thomas Rice
District 19:	Joshua Gage
District 20:	Albion K. Parris (resigned February 3, 1818)
District 20:	Enoch Lincoln (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Albion K. Parris; served from November 4, 1818)

Mississippi (admitted as a state December 10, 1817)

Senators

Walter Leake (served from December 10, 1817)

Thomas Hill Williams (served from December 10, 1817)

Representative At Large

George Poindexter (served from December 10, 1817)

New Hampshire

Senators

Jeremiah Mason (resigned June 16, 1817)

David L. Morril

Clement Storer (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Jeremiah Mason; served from June 27, 1817)

Representatives At Large

New Jersey

Senators

James J. Wilson

Mahlon Dickerson

Representatives At Large

New York

Senators

Rufus King
Nathan Sanford

Representatives

District 1*:	Treadwell Scudder
	George Townsend
District 2†:	William Irving
	Peter H. Wendover
District 3:	Caleb Tompkins
District 4:	James Tallmadge, Jr. (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Representative-elect Henry B. Lee; served from June 6, 1817)
District 5:	Philip J. Schuyler
District 6:	James W. Wilkin
District 7:	Josiah Hasbrouck
District 8:	Dorrance Kirtland
District 9:	Rensselaer Westerlo
District 10:	John P. Cushman
District 11:	John W. Taylor
District 12‡:	John Savage
	John Palmer
District 13:	Thomas Lawyer
District 14:	John Herkimer
District 15#:	John R. Drake
	Isaac Williams, Jr.
District 16:	Henry R. Storrs
District 17:	Thomas H. Hubbard
District 18:	David A. Ogden
District 19:	James Porter
District 20§:	Daniel Cruger
	Oliver C. Comstock
District 21¶:	Benjamin Ellicott
	John C. Spencer

* Two-member district
† Two-member district
‡ Two-member district
# Two-member district
§ Two-member district
¶ Two-member district

North Carolina

Senators

Nathaniel Macon
Montfort Stokes

Representatives

District 1:	Lemuel Sawyer
District 2:	Joseph H. Bryan
District 3:	Thomas H. Hall
District 4:	Jesse Slocumb
District 5:	James Owen
District 6:	Weldon N. Edwards
District 7:	Alexander McMillan (died 1817)
	James Stewart (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Alexander McMillan; served from January 5, 1818)
District 8:	James S. Smith
District 9:	Thomas Settle
District 10:	George Mumford (died December 31, 1818)
	Charles Fisher (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of George Mumford; served from February 11, 1819)
District 11:	David M. Forney (resigned 1818)
	William Davidson (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Daniel M. Forney; served from December 2, 1818)
District 12:	Felix Walker
District 13:	Lewis Williams

Ohio

Senators

Jeremiah Morrow
Benjamin Ruggles

Representatives

District 1:	William Henry Harrison
District 2:	John W. Campbell
District 3:	Levi Barber
District 4:	Samuel Herrick
District 5:	Philemon Beecher
District 6:	Peter Hitchcock

Pennsylvania

Senators

Albert Lacock
Jonathan Roberts

Representatives

District 1*:	Joseph Hopkinson
	William Anderson
	Adam Seybart
	John Sergeant
District 2†:	Isaac Darlington
	Levi Pawling
District 3‡:	James M. Wallace
	John Whiteside
District 4:	Jacob Spangler (resigned April 20, 1818)
	Jacob Hostetter (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Jacob Spangler; served from November 16, 1818)
District 5#:	Andrew Boden
	William Maclay
District 6§:	John Ross (resigned February 24, 1818 to become president judge of the seventh judicial district of Pennsylvania)
	Thomas J. Rogers (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Ross; served from March 3, 1818)
	Samuel D. Ingham (resigned July 6, 1818 to become prothonotary of the courts of Bucks County, Pennsylvania)
	Samuel Moore (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Samuel D. Ingham; served from October 13, 1818)
District 7:	Joseph Hiester
District 8:	Alexander Ogle
District 9:	William P. Maclay
District 10¶:	John Murray (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Representative-elect David Scott; served from October 14, 1817)
	William Wilson
District 11:	David Marchand
District 12:	Thomas Patterson
District 13:	Christian Tarr
District 14:	Henry Baldwin
District 15:	Robert Moore

* Four-member district
† Two-member district
‡ Two-member district
# Two-member district
§ Two-member district
¶ Two-member district

Rhode Island

Senators

William Hunter

James Burrill, Jr.

Representatives At Large

John L. Boss, Jr.

James B. Mason

South Carolina

Senators

John Galliard
William Smith

Representatives

District 1:	Henry Middleton
District 2:	William Lowndes
District 3:	James Ervin
District 4:	Joseph Bellinger
District 5:	Starling Tucker
District 6:	John C. Calhoun (resigned November 3, 1817 to become Secretary of War)
	Eldred Simkins (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John C. Calhoun; served from January 24, 1818)
District 7:	Elias Earle
District 8:	Wilson Nesbitt
District 9:	Stephen Decatur Miller

Tennessee

Senators

George Washington Campbell (resigned April 20, 1818 to become Minister to Russia)
John Williams
John Eaton (appointed and subsequently elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of George Campbell; served from September 5, 1818)

Representatives

District 1:	John Rhea
District 2:	William G. Blount
District 3:	Francis Jones
District 4:	Samuel E. Hogg
District 5:	Thomas Claiborne
District 6:	George W. L. Marr

Vermont

Senators

Dudley Chase (resigned November 3, 1817)

Isaac Tichenor

James Fisk (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Dudley Chase; served from November 4, 1817; resigned January 8, 1818)

William A. Palmer (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James Fisk, as well as for the full term commencing in 1819; served from October 20, 1818)

Representatives At Large

Herman Allen of Colchester (resigned April 20, 1818 to become United States marshal for the district of Vermont)

Virginia

Senators

James Barbour
John W. Eppes

Representatives

District 1:	James Pindall
District 2:	Edward Colston
District 3:	Henry St. George Tucker
District 4:	William McCoy
District 5:	John Floyd
District 6:	Alexander Smyth
District 7:	Ballard Smith
District 8:	Charles F. Mercer
District 9:	William L. Ball
District 10:	George F. Strother
District 11:	Philip P. Barbour
District 12:	Robert S. Garnett
District 13:	Burwell Basset
District 14:	William A. Burwell
District 15:	William J. Lewis
District 16:	Archibald Austin
District 17:	James Pleasants
District 18:	Thomas M. Nelson
District 19:	Peterson Goodwyn (died February 21, 1818)
District 19:	John Pegram (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Peterson Goodwyn; served from April 21, 1818)
District 20:	James Johnson
District 21:	Thomas Newton, Jr
District 22:	Hugh Nelson
District 23:	John Tyler

Alabama Territory

Delegate

John Crowell (served from January 29, 1818)

Illinois Territory

Delegate

Nathaniel Pope (served until December 3, 1818, when Illinois was admitted as a State)

Missouri Territory

Delegate

John Scott (served from August 4, 1817)