Membership of the 16th Congress of the United States

 

March 4, 1819 to March 3, 1821

 

First Session:  December 6, 1819 to May 15, 1820

Second Session:  November 13, 1820 to March 3, 1821

 

Vice President of the United States:

Daniel D. Tompkins (New York)

President Pro Tempore of the Senate:

James Barbour (Virginia)
John Gaillard (South Carolina), from January 25, 1820

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)
John W. Taylor (New York), from November 15, 1820

Clerk of the House:

Thomas Dougherty (Kentucky)

Sergeant At Arms of the House:

Thomas Dunn (Maryland)

Doorkeeper of the House:

Thomas Claxton

 

Alabama (admitted as a state December 14, 1819)

 

Senators

 

John W. Walker (served from December 14, 1819)

William R. King (served from December 14, 1819)

 

Representative At Large

 

John Crowell (served from December 14, 1819)

 

Connecticut

 

Senators

 

Samuel Dana

James Lanman

 

Representatives At Large

 

Jonathan O. Moseley

Henry W. Edwards

Samuel A. Foot

Elisha Phelps

John Russ

James Stevens

Gideon Tomlinson

 

Delaware

 

Senators

 

Outerbridge Horsey

Nicholas Van Dyke

 

Representatives At Large

 

Willard Hall (resigned January 22, 1821)

Louis McLane

Georgia

 

Senators

 

John Elliott

Freeman Walker (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Forsyth in the previous Congress; served from November 6, 1819)

 

Representatives At Large

 

Joel Abbott

Thomas W. Cobb

Joel Crawford

William Terrell

Robert R. Reid

John A. Cuthbert

 

Illinois

 

Senators

 

Jesse B. Thomas

Ninian Edwards

 

Representative At Large

 

Daniel P. Cook

 

Indiana

 

Senators

 

James Noble

Waller Taylor

 

Representative At Large

 

William Hendricks

 

Kentucky

 

Senators

 

William Logan (resigned May 28, 1820 to become a candidate for Governor of Kentucky)

Richard Johnson (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Crittenden in the previous Congress; served from December 10, 1819)

Isham Talbot (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William Logan; served from October 19, 1820)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

David Trimble

District 2:

Henry Clay

District 3:

William Brown

District 4:

Thomas Metcalfe

District 5:

Alney McLean

District 6:

David Walker (died March 1, 1820)

Francis Johnson (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of David Walker; served from November 13, 1820)

District 7:

George Robertson

District 8:

Richard C. Anderson, Jr.

District 9:

Tunstall Quarles (resigned June 15, 1820)

Thomas Montgomery (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Tunstall Quarles; served from August 1, 1820)

District 10:

Benjamin Hardin

 

Louisiana

 

Senators

 

Henry Johnson

James Brown

 

Representative At Large

 

Thomas Butler

 

Maine (admitted as a state March 15, 1820)

 

Senators

 

John Chandler (served from June 13, 1820)

John Holmes (served from June 13, 1820)

 

Representative At Large

 

Joseph Dane (served from November 6, 1820)

 

Maryland

 

Senators

 

Alexander Hanson (died April 23, 1819)

Edward Lloyd 

William Pinkney (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Alexander Hanson; served from December 21, 1819)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Raphael Neale

District 2:

Joseph Kent

District 3:

Henry R. Warfield

District 4:

Samuel Ringgold

District 5*:

 

Peter Little

Samuel Smith

District 6:

Stevenson Archer

District 7:

Thomas Culbreth

District 8:

Thomas Bayly

 

* Two-member district

 

Massachusetts

 

Senators

 

Harrison Gray Otis

Prentiss Mellen (resigned May 15, 1820)

Elijah H. Mills (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Prentiss Mellen; served from June 12, 1820)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Jonathan Mason (resigned May 15, 1820)

Benjamin Gorham (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Jonathan Mason; served from November 6, 1820)

District 2:

Nathaniel Silsbee

District 3:

Jeremiah Nelson

District 4:

Timothy Fuller

District 5:

Samuel Lathrop

District 6:

Samuel C. Allen

District 7:

Henry Shaw

District 8:

Zabdiel Sampson (resigned July 26, 1820 to become collector of customs at Plymouth, MA)

Aaron Hobart (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Zabdiel Sampson; served from November 24, 1820)

District 9:

Walter Folger, Jr.

District 10:

Marcus Morton

District 11:

Benjamin Adams

District 12:

Jonas Kendall

District 13:

Edward Dowse (resigned May 26, 1820)

William Eustis (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Edward Dowse; served from August 21, 1820)

District 14:

John Holmes (resigned March 15, 1820 to become Senator from Maine)

District 15:

Ezekiel Whitman (Representative from Maine from March 15, 1820)

District 16:

Mark Langdon Hill (Representative from Maine from March 15, 1820)

District 17:

Martin Kinsley (Representative from Maine from March 15, 1820)

District 18:

James Parker (Representative from Maine from March 15, 1820)

District 19:

Joshua Cushman (Representative from Maine from March 15, 1820)

District 20:

Enoch Lincoln (Representative from Maine from March 15, 1820)

 

Mississippi

 

Senators

 

Walter Leake (resigned May 15, 1820)

Thomas Hill Williams

David Holmes (appointed and subsequently elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Walter Leake; served from August 30, 1820)

 

Representatives At Large

 

Christopher Rankin

 

New Hampshire

 

Senators

 

David L. Morril

John F. Parrott

 

Representatives At Large

 

Joseph Buffum, Jr.

Josiah Butler

Clifton Clagett

Arthur Livermore

William Plumer, Jr.

Nathaniel Upham

 

New Jersey

 

Senators

 

James J. Wilson (resigned January 8, 1821)

Mahlon Dickerson

Samuel L. Southard (appointed and subsequently elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James J. Wilson; served from January 26, 1821)

 

Representatives At Large

 

John Condit (resigned November 4, 1819)

Charles Kinsey (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Condit; served from February 2, 1820)

John Linn (died January 5, 1821)

Bernard Smith

Henry Southard

Joseph Bloomfield

Ephraim Bateman

 

New York

 

Senators

 

Rufus King

Nathan Sanford

 

Representatives

 

District 1*:

Ebenezer Sage (succeeded January 14, 1820 by James Guyon, Jr., who contested the election)

James Guyon, Jr. (successfully contested the election of Ebenezer Sage, served from January 14, 1820)

Silas Wood

District 2†:

Henry Meigs

Peter H. Wendover

District 3:

Caleb Tompkins

District 4:

Randall S. Street

District 5:

James Strong

District 6:

Walter Case

District 7:

Jacob Hasbrouck De Witt

District 8:

Robert Clark

District 9:

Solomon V. Van Rensselaer

District 10:

John D. Dickinson

District 11:

John W. Taylor

District 12‡:

Ezra C. Gross

Nathaniel Pitcher

District 13:

Harmanus Peek

District 14:

John Fay

District 15#:

Joseph S. Lyman

Robert Monell

District 16:

Henry R. Storrs

District 17:

Aaron Hackley, Jr.

District 18:

William D. Ford

District 19:

George Hall

District 20§:

Caleb Baker

Jonathan Richmond

District 21¶:

Nathaniel Allen

Albert H. Tracy

 

* 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:

Hutchins G. Burton (served from December 6, 1819)

District 3:

Thomas H. Hall

District 4:

Jesse Slocumb (died December 20, 1820)

William S. Blackledge (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Jesse Slocumb; served from February 7, 1821)

District 5:

Charles Hooks

District 6:

Weldon N. Edwards

District 7:

John Culpepper

District 8:

James S. Smith

District 9:

Thomas Settle

District 10:

Charles Fisher

District 11:

William Davidson

District 12:

Felix Walker

District 13:

Lewis Williams

 

Ohio

 

Senators

 

Benjamin Ruggles

William Trimble

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Thomas R. Ross 

District 2:

John W. Campbell

District 3:

Henry Brush

District 4:

Samuel Herrick

District 5:

Philemon Beecher

District 6:

John Sloane

 

Pennsylvania

 

Senators

 

Jonathan Roberts

Walter Lowrie

 

Representatives

 

District 1*:

Samuel Edwards

Thomas Forrest

Joseph Hemphill

John Sergeant

District 2†:

Samuel Gross

William Darlington

District 3‡:

James M. Wallace

Jacob Hibshman

District 4:

Jacob Hostetter

District 5#:

Andrew Boden

David Fullerton (resigned May 15, 1820)

Thomas G. McCullough (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of David Fullerton; served from October 17, 1820)

District 6§:

Thomas J. Rogers

Samuel Moore

District 7:

Joseph Hiester (resigned December, 1820 to become Governor of Pennsylvania)

Daniel Udree (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Joseph Hiester; served from December 26, 1820)

District 8:

Robert Philson

District 9:

William P. Maclay

District 10¶:

John Murray

George Denison

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. (died December 25, 1820)

Nehemiah R. Knight (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James Burrill, Jr.; served from January 9, 1821)

 

Representatives At Large

 

Samuel Eddy

Nathaniel Hazard (died December 17, 1820)

 

South Carolina

 

Senators

 

John Galliard

William Smith

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Charles Pinckney

District 2:

William Lowndes

District 3:

James Ervin

District 4:

James Overstreet

District 5:

Starling Tucker

District 6:

Eldred Simkins

District 7:

Elias Earle

District 8:

John McCreary

District 9:

Joseph Brevard

 

Tennessee

 

Senators

 

John Williams

John Eaton

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

John Rhea 

District 2:

John A. Cocke

District 3:

Francis Jones

District 4:

Robert Allen

District 5:

Newton Cannon

District 6:

Henry H. Bryan

 

Vermont

 

Senators

 

Isaac Tichenor

William A. Palmer

 

Representatives At Large

 

Samuel C. Crafts

Ezra Meech

William Strong

Charles Rich

Orsamus C. Merrill (succeeded January 12, 1820 by Rollin C. Mallary, who contested the electon)

Rollin C. Mallary (successfully contested the election of Orsamus C. Merrill; served from January 12, 1820)

Mark Richards

 

Virginia

 

Senators

 

James Barbour 

John W. Eppes (resigned December 4, 1819 due to ill health)

James Pleasants (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John W. Eppes; served from December 14, 1819)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

James Pindall (resigned July 26, 1820)

 

Edward B. Jackson (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James Pindall; served from October 23, 1820)

District 2:

Thomas Van Swearingen

District 3:

Jared Williams

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 (resigned February 10, 1820)

 

Thomas L. Moore (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of George F. Strother; served from November 13, 1820)

District 11:

Philip P. Barbour

District 12:

Robert S. Garnett

District 13:

Severn E. Parker

District 14:

William A. Burwell (died February 16, 1821)

District 15:

George Tucker

District 16:

John Randolph of Roanoke

District 17:

James Pleasants (resigned December 14, 1819 to become Senator)

 

William S. Archer (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James Pleasants; served from January 3, 1820)

District 18:

Mark Alexander

District 19:

James Jones

District 20:

James Johnson (resigned February 1, 1820 to become collector of customs at Norfolk, VA)

 

John C. Gray (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James Johnson; served from August 28, 1820)

District 21:

Thomas Newton, Jr.

District 22:

Hugh Nelson

District 23:

John Tyler

 

Arkansas Territory

 

Delegate

 

James W. Bates (served from December 21, 1819)
 

Michigan Territory

 

Delegate

 

William Woodbridge (resigned August 9, 1820)

Solomon Sibley (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William W. Woodbridge; served from November 20, 1820)

 

Missouri Territory

 

Delegate

 

John Scott