Membership of the 1st Congress of the United States

 

March 4, 1789 to March 3, 1791

 

First Session:  March 4, 1789 to September 29, 1789

Second Session:  January 4, 1790 to August 12, 1790

Third Session:  December 6, 1790 to March 3, 1791

 

Vice President of the United States:

John Adams (Massachusetts)

President Pro Tempore of the Senate:

John Langdon (New Hampshire)

Secretary of the Senate:

Samuel A. Otis (Massachusetts)

Doorkeeper of the Senate:

James Mathers (New York)

   

Speaker of the House of Representatives:

Frederick A. C. Muhlenberg (Pennsylvania)

Clerk of the House:

John Beckley (Virginia)

Sergeant of Arms of the House:

Joseph Wheaton (Rhode Island)

Doorkeeper of the House:

Gifford Dalley

 

Connecticut

 

Senators

 

Oliver Ellsworth

William S. Johnson

 

Representatives At Large

 

Benjamin Huntington

Roger Sherman

Jonathan Sturges

Jonathan Trumbull, Jr.

Jeremiah Wadsworth

 

Delaware

 

Senators

 

Richard Bassett

George Read

 

Representative At Large

 

John Vining

 

Georgia

 

Senators

 

William Few

James Gunn

 

Representatives At Large

 

Abraham Baldwin

James Jackson

George Matthews

 

Maryland

 

Senators

 

John Henry

Charles Carroll

 

Representatives At Large

 

Daniel Carroll

Benjamin Contee

George Gale

Joshua Seney

William Smith

Michael J. Stone

 

Massachusetts

 

Senators

 

Tristram Dalton

Caleb Strong

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Fisher Ames

District 2:

Benjamin Goodhue

District 3:

Elbridge Gerry

District 4:

Theodore Sedgwick

District 5:

George Partridge (resigned August 14, 1790)

District 6:

George Thatcher

District 7:

George Leonard

District 8:

Jonathan Grout

 

New Hampshire

 

Senators

 

John Langdon

Paine Wingate

 

Representatives At Large

 

Abiel Foster

Nicholas Gilman

Samuel Livermore

 

New Jersey

 

Senators

 

Jonathan Elmer

William Paterson (resigned November 13, 1790 to become an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States)

Philemon Dickinson (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William Paterson; served from November 23, 1790)

 

Representatives At Large

 

Elias Boudinot

Lambert Cadwalader

James Schureman

Thomas Sinnickson

 

New York

 

Senators

 

Rufus King (served from July 16, 1789)

Phillip J. Schuyler (served from July 16, 1789)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

William Floyd

District 2:

John Laurance

District 3:

Egbert Benson 

District 4:

John Hathorn

District 5:

Peter Silvester

District 6:

Jeremiah Van Rensselaer

 

North Carolina

 

Senators

 

Benjamin Hawkins (served from November 27, 1789)

Samuel Johnston (served from November 27, 1789)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

John B. Ashe (served from March 24, 1790)

District 2:

Hugh Williamson (served from March 19, 1790)

District 3:

Timothy Bloodworth (served from April 6, 1790)

District 4:

John Steele (served from April 19, 1790)

District 5:

John Sevier (served from June 16, 1790)

 

Pennsylvania

 

Senators

 

William Maclay

Robert Morris

 

Representatives At Large

 

George Clymer 

Thomas Fitzsimmons

Thomas Hartley

Daniel Hiester

Frederick A. C. Muhlenberg

John Peter G. Muhlenberg

Thomas Scott

Henry Wynkoop

 

Rhode Island

 

Senators

 

Theodore Foster (served from June 7, 1790)

Joseph Stanton (served from June 7, 1790)

 

Representative At Large

 

Benajmin Bourne (served from August 31, 1790)

 

South Carolina

 

Senators

 

Pierce Butler

Ralph Izard

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

William L. Smith 

District 2:

Aedanus Burke

District 3:

Daniel Huger

District 4:

Thomas Sumter

District 5:

Thomas T. Tucker

 

Virginia

 

Senators

 

William Grayson (died March 12, 1790)

Richard Henry Lee

John Walker (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William Grayson; served from March 31, 1790 to November 9, 1790, when James Monroe was elected)

James Monroe (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William Grayson; served from from November 9, 1790)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Alexander White

District 2:

John Brown

District 3:

Andrew Moore

District 4:

Richard B. Lee

District 5:

James Madison

District 6:

Isaac Coles

District 7:

John Page

District 8:

Josiah Parker

District 9:

Theodorick Bland (died June 1, 1790)

 

William B. Giles (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Theodorick Bland; served from December 7, 1790)

District 10:

Samuel Griffin