Membership of the 17th Congress of the United States
 
March 4, 1821 to March 3, 1823
 
First Session:  December 3, 1821 to May 8, 1822
Second Session:  December 2, 1822 to March 3, 1823
 

Vice President of the United States:

Daniel D. Tompkins (New York)

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: 

Philip P. Barbour (Virginia)

Clerk of the House: 

Thomas Dougherty (Kentucky)
Matthew St. Clair Clarke (Pennsylvania), from December 3, 1822

Sergeant At Arms of the House: 

Thomas Dunn (Maryland)

Doorkeeper of the House: 

Benjamin Birch (Maryland)

 

Alabama

 

Senators

 

John W. Walker (resigned December 12, 1822)

William R. King

William Kelly (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John W. Walker; served from December 12, 1822)

 

Representative At Large

 

Gabriel Moore

 

Connecticut

 

Senators

 

James Lanman

Elijah Boardman

 

Representatives At Large

 

Henry W. Edwards

John Russ

Gideon Tomlinson

Noyes Barber

Daniel Burrows

Ansel Sterling

Ebenezer Stoddard

 

Delaware

 

Senators

 

Nicholas Van Dyke

Caesar A. Rodney (served from January 24, 1822; resigned January 29, 1823)

 

Representatives At Large

 

Caesar A. Rodney (resigned January 24, 1822 to become Senator)

Daniel Rodney (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Caesar A. Rodney; served from October 1, 1822)

Louis McLane

 

Georgia

 

Senators

 

John Elliott

Freeman Walker (resigned August 6, 1821)

Nicholas Ware (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Freeman Walker; served from November 10, 1821)

 

Representatives At Large

 

Joel Abbott

Robert R. Reid

Alfred Cuthbert

George R. Gilmer

Edward F. Tattnall

Wiley Thompson

 

Illinois

 

Senators

 

Jesse B. Thomas

Ninian Edwards

 

Representative At Large

 

Daniel P. Cook

 

Indiana

 

Senators

 

James Noble

Waller Taylor

 

Representative At Large

 

William Hendricks (resigned July 25, 1822 to become Governor of Indiana)

Jonathan Jennings (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William Hendricks; served from December 2, 1822)

 

Kentucky

 

Senators

 

Richard Johnson

Isham Talbot

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

David Trimble

District 2:

Samuel H. Woodson

District 3:

John T. Johnson

District 4:

Thomas Metcalfe

District 5:

Anthony New

District 6:

Francis Johnson

District 7:

George Robertson (resigned 1821 before Congress convened)

John S. Smith (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of George Robertson; served from August 6, 1821)

District 8:

Wingfield Bullock (died October 13, 1821)

James D. Breckinridge (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Wingfield Bullock; served from November 21, 1821)

District 9:

Thomas Montgomery

District 10:

Benjamin Hardin

 

Louisiana

 

Senators

 

Henry Johnson

James Brown

 

Representative At Large

 

Josiah S. Johnston

 

Maine

 

Senators

 

John Chandler

John Holmes

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Joseph Dane

District 2:

 

Ezekiel Whitman (resigned June 1, 1822)

Mark Harris (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Ezekiel Whitman; served from December 2, 1822)

District 3:

Mark L. Hill

District 4:

William D. Williamson

District 5:

Ebenezer Herrick

District 6:

Joshua Cushman

District 7:

Enoch Lincoln

 

Maryland

 

Senators

 

Edward Lloyd 

William Pinkney (died February 25, 1822)

Samuel Smith (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William Pinkney; served from December 17, 1822)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Raphael Neale

District 2:

Joseph Kent

District 3:

Henry R. Warfield

District 4:

John Nelson

District 5*:

Peter Little

Samuel Smith (resigned December 17, 1822 to become Senator)

Isaac McKim (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Samuel Smith; served from January 4, 1823)

District 6:

Jeremiah Cosden (succeeded March 19, 1822 by Philip Reed, who contested the election)

Philip Reed (successfully contested the election of Jeremiah Cosden; served from March 19, 1822)

District 7:

Robert Wright

District 8:

Thomas Bayly

 

* Two-member district

 

Massachusetts

 

Senators

 

Harrison Gray Otis (resigned May 30, 1822)

Elijah H. Mills

James Lloyd (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Harrison Gray Otis; served from June 5, 1822)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Benjamin Gorham

District 2:

Gideon Barstow

District 3:

Jeremiah Nelson

District 4:

Timothy Fuller

District 5:

Samuel Lathrop

District 6:

Samuel C. Allen

District 7:

Henry W. Dwight

District 8:

Aaron Hobart

District 9:

John Reed, Jr.

District 10:

Francis Baylies

District 11:

Johnathan Russell

District 12:

Lewis Bigelow

District 13:

William Eustis

 

Mississippi

 

Senators

 

Thomas Hill Williams

David Holmes

 

Representative At Large

 

Christopher Rankin

 

Missouri (admitted as a state August 10, 1821)

 

Senators

 

David Barton (served from August 10, 1821)

Thomas Hart Benton (served from August 10, 1821)

 

Representative At Large

 

John Scott (served from August 10, 1821)

 

New Hampshire

 

Senators

 

David L. Morril

John F. Parrott

 

Representatives At Large

 

Josiah Butler

Thomas Whipple, Jr.

Aaron Matson

Matthew Harvey

William Plumer, Jr.

Nathaniel Upham

 

New Jersey

 

Senators

 

Mahlon Dickerson

Samuel L. Southard (resigned March 3, 1823 to become Secretary of the Navy)

 

Representatives At Large

 

Ephraim Bateman

Lewis Condict

George Cassedy

George Holcombe

James Matlack

Samuel Swan

 

New York

 

Senators

 

Rufus King

Martin Van Buren

 

Representatives

 

District 1*:

Silas Wood

Peter Sharpe (succeeded December 12, 1821 by Cadwallader C. Colden, who contested the election)

Cadwallader C. Colden (successfully contested the election of Peter Sharpe; served from December 12, 1821)

District 2†:

Churchill C. Cambreleng

John J. Morgan

District 3:

Jeremiah H. Pierson

District 4:

William W. Van Wyck

District 5:

Walter Patterson

District 6:

Selah Tuthill (died September 7, 1821)

Charles Boreland, Jr. (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Selah Tuthill; served from November 8, 1821)

District 7:

Charles H. Ruggles

District 8:

Richard McCarty

District 9:

Solomon V. Van Rensselaer (resigned January 14, 1822)

Stephen Van Rensselaer (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Solomon V. Van Rensselaer; served from February 27, 1822)

District 10:

John D. Dickinson

District 11:

John W. Taylor

District 12‡:

Reuben H. Walworth

Nathaniel Pitcher

District 13:

John Gebhard

District 14:

Alfred Conkling

District 15#:

Samuel Campbell

James Hawkes

District 16:

Joseph Kirkland

District 17:

Thomas H. Hubbard

District 18:

Micah Sterling

District 19:

Elisha Litchfield

District 20§:

William B. Rochester

David Woodcock

District 21:

Elijah Spencer

District 22:

Albert H. Tracy

 
* 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

District 3:

Thomas H. Hall

District 4:

William S. Blackledge

District 5:

Charles Hooks

District 6:

Weldon N. Edwards

District 7:

Archibald McNeill

District 8:

Josiah Crudup

District 9:

Romulus M. Saunders

District 10:

John Long

District 11:

Henry W. Connor

District 12:

Felix Walker

District 13:

Lewis Williams

 

Ohio

 

Senators

 

Benjamin Ruggles

William Trimble (died December 13, 1821)

Ethan Brown (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William Trimble; served from January 3, 1822)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Thomas R. Ross

District 2:

John W. Campbell

District 3:

Levi Barber

District 4:

David Chambers (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Representative-elect John C. Wright; served from October 9, 1821)

District 5:

Joseph Vance

District 6:

John Sloane

 

 

Pennsylvania

 

Senators

 

Walter Lowrie

William Findlay (elected to fill the vacancy in the term commencing March 4, 1821 caused by the failure of the legislature to elect; served from December 10, 1821)

 

Representatives

 

District 1*:

Samuel Edwards 

William Milnor (resigned May 8, 1822)

Thomas Forrest (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William Milnor; served from October 8, 1822)

Joseph Hemphill

John Sergeant

District 2†:

Samuel Gross

William Darlington

District 3‡:

James Buchanan

John Phillips

District 4#:

James S. Mitchell

James Duncan (elected to the 17th Congress but resigned before the Congress assembled)

John Findlay (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James Duncan; served from October 9, 1821)

District 5:

James McSherry

District 6§:

Samuel Moore (resigned May 20, 1822)

Samuel D. Ingham (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Samuel Moore; served from October 8, 1822)

Thomas J. Rogers

District 7:

Ludwig Worman (died October 17, 1822)

Daniel Udree (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Ludwig Worman; served from December 10, 1822)

District 8:

John Tod

District 9:

John Brown

District 10¶:

William C. Ellis (elected to the 17th Congress but resigned before the Congress assembled)

Thomas Murray, Jr. (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William C. Ellis; served from October 9, 1821)

George Denison

District 11:

George Plumer

District 12:

Thomas Patterson

District 13:

Andrew Stewart

District 14:

Henry Baldwin (resigned May 8, 1822)

Walter Forward (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Henry Baldwin; served from October 8, 1822)

District 15:

Patrick Farrelly

 

* Four-member district

† Two-member district

‡ Two-member district

# Two-member district

§ Two-member district

¶ Two-member district

 

Rhode Island

 

Senators

 

Nehemiah R. Knight

James De Wolf

 

Representatives At Large

 

Samuel Eddy

Job Durfee

 

 

South Carolina

 

Senators

 

John Galliard

William Smith

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Joel R. Poinsett

District 2:

William Lowndes (resigned May 8, 1822)

James Hamilton, Jr. (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William Lowndes; served from December 13, 1822)

District 3:

Thomas R. Mitchell

District 4:

James Overstreet (died May 24, 1822)

Andrew R. Govan (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James Overstreet; served from December 4, 1822)

District 5:

Starling Tucker

District 6:

George McDuffie

District 7:

John Wilson

District 8:

Joseph Gist

District 9:

James Blair (resigned May 8, 1822)

John Carter (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James Blair; served from December 11, 1822)

 

Tennessee

 

Senators

 

John Williams

John Eaton (served from September 27, 1821)

 

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 (reelected to the 17th Congress but appears never to have taken his seat)

 

 

Vermont

 

Senators

 

William A. Palmer 

Horatio Seymour

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Rollin C. Mallary 

District 2:

Phineas White

District 3:

Charles Rich

District 4:

Elias Keyes

District 5:

Samuel C. Crafts

District 6:

John Mattocks

 

Virginia

 

Senators

 

James Barbour

James Pleasants (resigned December 15, 1822)

John Taylor of Caroline (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James Pleasants; served from December 18, 1822)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Edward B. Jackson

District 2:

Thomas Van Swearingen (died August 19, 1822)

James Stephenson (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Thomas Van Swearingen; served from October 28, 1822)

District 3:

Jared Williams

District 4:

William McCoy

District 5:

John Floyd

District 6:

Alexander Smyth

District 7:

William Smith

District 8:

Charles F. Mercer

District 9:

William L. Ball

District 10:

Thomas L. Moore

District 11:

Philip P. Barbour

District 12:

Robert S. Garnett

District 13:

Burwell Bassett

District 14:

Jabez Leftwich

District 15:

George Tucker

District 16:

John Randolph of Roanoke

District 17:

William S. Archer

District 18:

Mark Alexander

District 19:

James Jones

District 20:

Arthur Smith

District 21:

Thomas Newton, Jr.

District 22:

Hugh Nelson (resigned January 14, 1823 to become Minister to Spain) 

District 23:

Andrew Stevenson

 

Arkansas Territory
 

Delegate

 
James W. Bates
 

Florida Territory

 

Delegate

 

Joseph M. Hernandez (served from September 30, 1822)

 

Michigan Territory

 

Delegate

 

Solomon Sibley