Membership of the 20th Congress of the United States

 

March 4, 1827 to March 3, 1829

 

First Session:  December 3, 1827 to May 26, 1828

Second Session:  December 1, 1828 to March 3, 1829

 

Vice President of the United States: 

John C. Calhoun (South Carolina)

President Pro Tempore of the Senate: 

Samuel Smith (Maryland)

Secretary of the Senate: 

Walter Lowrie (Pennsylvania)

Sergeant At Arms of the Senate: 

Mountjoy Bayly (Maryland)

   

Speaker of the House of Representatives: 

Andrew Stevenson (Virginia)

Clerk of the House: 

Matthew St. Clair Clarke (Pennsylvania)

Sergeant At Arms of the House: 

John O. Dunn (District of Columbia)

Doorkeeper of the House: 

Benjamin Birch (Maryland)

 

Alabama

 

Senators

 

William R. King (Jacks.)

John McKinley (Jacks.)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Gabriel Moore (Jacks.)

District 2:

John McKee (Jacks.)

District 3:

George W. Owen (Jacks.)

 

Connecticut

 

Senators

 

Calvin Willey

Samuel A. Foot

 

Representatives At Large

 

John Baldwin

Noyes Barber

Ralph I. Ingersoll

Orange Merwin

Elisha Phelps

David Plant

 

Delaware

 

Senators

 

Henry Moore Ridgely

Louis McLane

 

Representative At Large

 

Kensey Johns, Jr. (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Louis McLane; served from October 2, 1827)

 

Georgia

 

Senators

 

Thomas W. Cobb (resigned 1828)

John M. Berrien

Oliver H. Prince (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Thomas W. Cobb; served from November 7, 1828)

 

Representatives At Large

 

John Floyd

John Forsyth (resigned November 7, 1827 to become Governor of Georgia)

Richard H. Wilde (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Forsyth; served from January 14, 1828)

Tomlinson Fort

Charles E. Haynes

Wilson Lumpkin

Edward F. Tattnall (resigned 1827 before Congress convened)

George R. Gilmer (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Edward F. Tatnall; served from October 1, 1827)

Wiley Thompson

 

Illinois

 

Senators

 

Jesse B. Thomas (Adams)

Elias K. Kane (Jacks.)

 

Representative At Large

 

Joseph Duncan (Jacks.)

 

Indiana

 

Senators

 

James Noble

William Hendricks

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Thomas Blake

District 2:

Jonathan Jennings

District 3:

Oliver H. Smith

 

Kentucky

 

Senators

 

Richard Johnson

John Rowan

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Henry Daniel

District 2:

Thomas Metcalfe (resigned June 1, 1828)

John Chambers (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Thomas Metcalfe; served from December 1, 1828)

District 3:

James Clark

District 4:

Robert Letcher

District 5:

Robert L. McHatton

District 6:

Joseph Lecompte

District 7:

Thomas P. Moore

District 8:

Richard A. Buckner

District 9:

Charles A. Wickliffe

District 10:

Joel Yancey

District 11:

William S. Young (died September 20, 1827)

John Calhoon (received the credentials of an election to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William S. Young, but, in order to avoid a contest, resigned and, together with Thomas Chilton, petitioned the Governor for a new election)

Thomas Chilton (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Calhoon; served from December 22, 1827)

District 12:

Chittenden Lyon

 

Louisiana

 

Senators

 

Josiah S. Johnston

Dominique Bouligny

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Edward Livingston

District 2:

Henry H. Gurley

District 3:

William L. Brent

 

Maine

 

Senators

 

John Chandler

Albion K. Parris (resigned August 26, 1828)

John Holmes (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Albion K. Parris; served from January 15, 1829)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

William Burleigh (died July 2, 1827)

Rufus McIntire (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William Burleigh; served from September 10, 1827)

District 2:

John Anderson

District 3:

Joseph F. Wingate

District 4:

Peleg Sprague (resigned March 3, 1829 to become Senator)

District 5:

James W. Ripley

District 6:

Jeremiah O'Brien

District 7:

Samuel Butman

 

Maryland

 

Senators

 

Samuel Smith

Ezekiel F. Chambers

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Clement Dorsey

District 2:

John C. Weems

District 3:

George C. Washington

District 4:

Michael C. Sprigg

District 5*:

Peter Little

John Barney

District 6:

Levin Gale

District 7:

John L. Kerr

District 8:

Ephraim K. Wilson

 

* Two-member district

 

Massachusetts

 

Senators

 

Nathaniel Silsbee

Daniel Webster (elected to fill the vacancy in the term beginning March 4, 1827, caused by the failure of the legislature to elect; served from June 8, 1827)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

 

Daniel Webster (resigned May 30, 1827 to become Senator)

Benjamin Gorham (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Daniel Webster; served from July 23, 1827)

District 2:

Benjamin W. Crowninshield

District 3:

John Varnum

District 4:

Edward Everett

District 5:

John Davis

District 6:

John Locke

District 7:

Samuel C. Allen

District 8:

Isaac C. Bates

District 9:

Henry W. Dwight

District 10:

John Bailey

District 11:

Joseph Richardson

District 12:

James L. Hodges

District 13:

John Reed, Jr.

 

Mississippi

 

Senators

 

Thomas Hill Williams

Powhatan Ellis

 

Representative At Large

 

William Haile (resigned September 12, 1828)

Thomas Hinds (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William Haile; served from October 21, 1828)

 

Missouri

 

Senators

 

David Barton

Thomas Hart Benton

 

Representative At Large

 

Edward Bates

 

New Hampshire

 

Senators

 

Samuel Bell

Levi Woodbury

 

Representatives At Large

 

Ichabod Bartlett

Thomas Whipple, Jr.

Titus Brown

David Barker, Jr.

Jonathan Harvey

Joseph Healy

 

New Jersey

 

Senators

 

Ephraim Bateman (resigned January 12, 1829 due to ill health)

Mahlon Dickerson (resigned January 30, 1829; immediately reelected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Ephraim Bateman)

 

Representatives At Large

 

Isaac Pierson

Lewis Condict 

Hedge Thompson (died July 23, 1828)

Thomas Sinnickson (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Hedge Thompson; served from December 1, 1828)

George Holcombe (died January 14, 1828)

James F. Randolph (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of George Holcombe; served from December 1, 1828)

Samuel Swan

Ebenezer Tucker
 

New York

 

Senators

 

Martin Van Buren (Jacks.) (resigned December 20, 1828 to become Governor of New York)

Nathan Sanford (Adams)

Charles E. Dudley (Jacks.) (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Martin Van Buren; served from January 15, 1829)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Silas Wood

District 2:

John J. Wood

District 3*:

 

Churchill C. Cambreleng (Jacks.)

Gulian C. Verplanck (Jacks.)

Jeromus Johnson (Jacks.)

District 4:

Aaron Ward (Jacks.)

District 5:

Thomas J. Oakley (Jacks.) (resigned  May 9, 1828 to become judge of the superior court of New York City)

Thomas Taber II (Jacks.) (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Thomas J. Oakley; served from November 5, 1828)

District 6:

John Hallock, Jr. (Jacks.)

District 7:

George O. Belden (Jacks.)

District 8:

James Strong (Adams)

District 9:

John D. Dickinson (Adams)

District 10:

Stephen Van Rensselaer

District 11:

Selah R. Hobbie (Jacks.)

District 12:

John I. De Graff (Jacks.)

District 13:

Samuel Chase (Adams)

District 14:

Henry R. Storrs (Adams)

District 15:

Michael Hoffman

District 16:

Henry Markell (Adams)

District 17:

John W. Taylor (Adams)

District 18:

Henry C. Martindale (Adams)

District 19:

Richard Keese (Jacks.)

District 20†:

Rudolph Bunner (Jacks.)

Silas Wright, Jr. (Jacks.) (resigned February 16, 1829)

District 21:

John C. Clark (Jacks.)

District 22:

John G. Stower (Jacks.)

District 23:

Jonas Earll, Jr.

District 24:

Nathaniel Garrow (Jacks.)

District 25:

David Woodcock

District 26‡:

Dudley Marvin (Adams)

John Maynard (Adams)

District 27:

Daniel D. Barnard (Adams)

District 28:

John Magee

District 29:

David E. Evans (Jacks.) (resigned May 2, 1827)

Phineas L. Tracy (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of David E. Evans; served from November 5, 1827)

District 30:

Daniel G. Garnsey (Adams)

 

* Three-member district

† Two-member district

‡ Two-member district

 

North Carolina

 

Senators

 

Nathaniel Macon (resigned November 14, 1828)

John Branch

James Iredell (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Nathaniel Macon; served from December 15, 1828)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Lemuel Sawyer

District 2:

Willis Alston

District 3:

Thomas H. Hall

District 4:

John H. Bryan

District 5:

Gabriel Holmes

District 6:

Daniel Turner

District 7:

John Culpepper

District 8:

Daniel L. Barringer

District 9:

Augustine H. Shepperd

District 10:

John Long

District 11:

Henry W. Connor

District 12:

Samuel P. Carson

District 13:

Lewis Williams

 

Ohio

 

Senators

 

Benjamin Ruggles (Adams)

William Henry Harrison (Adams) (resigned May 20, 1828 to become Minister to Colombia)

Jacob Burnet (Adams) (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William Henry Harrison; served from December 10, 1828)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

James Findlay

District 2:

John Woods

District 3:

William McLean (Adams)

District 4:

Joseph Vance

District 5:

William Russell (Jacks.)

District 6:

William Creighton, Jr. (Adams) (resigned 1828)

Francis S. Muhlenberg (Adams) (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William Creighton, Jr.; served from December 19, 1828)

District 7:

Samuel F. Vinton

District 8:

William Wilson (died June 6, 1827)

William Stanbery (Jacks.) (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William Wilson; served from October 9, 1827)

District 9:

Philemon Beecher (Adams)

District 10:

John Davenport (Adams)

District 11:

John C. Wright

District 12:

John Sloane (Adams)

District 13:

Elisha Whittlesey

District 14:

Mordecai Bartley (Adams)

 

Pennsylvania

 

Senators

 

William Marks (Adams)

Isaac D. Barnard (Jacks.)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Joel B. Sutherland (Jacks.)

District 2:

John Sergeant (Adams)

District 3:

Daniel H. Miller (Jacks.)

District 4*:

James Buchanan (Dem. Rep.)

Samuel Anderson (Adams)

Charles Miner (Adams)

District 5:

John B. Sterigere (Jacks.)

District 6:

Innis Green (Jacks.)

District 7†:

William Addams (Jacks.)

Joseph Fry, Jr. (Jacks.)

District 8‡:

Samuel D. Ingham (Jacks.)

George Wolf

District 9#:

Espy Van Horne

George Kremer (Jacks.)

Samuel McKean (Jacks.)

District 10:

Adam King (Jacks.)

District 11§:

William Ramsey (Jacks.)

James Wilson

District 12:

John Mitchell (Jacks.)

District 13:

Chauncey Forward (Jacks.)

District 14:

Andrew Stewart (Adams)

District 15:

Joseph Lawrence (Adams)

District 16¶:

Robert Orr, Jr. (Jacks.)

James S. Stevenson (Jacks.)

District 17:

Richard Coulter (Jacks.)

District 18:

Stephen Barlow (Jacks.)

 

* Three-member district

† Two-member district

‡ Two-member district

# Three-member district

§ Two-member district

¶ Two-member district

 

Rhode Island

 

Senators

 

Nehemiah R. Knight

Asher Robbins

 

Representatives At Large

 

Tristam Burges 

Dutee J. Pearce

 

South Carolina

 

Senators

 

Robert Y. Hayne

William Smith

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

William Drayton

District 2:

James Hamilton, Jr.

District 3:

Thomas R. Mitchell

District 4:

William D. Martin

District 5:

George McDuffie

District 6:

Warren R. Davis

District 7:

William T. Nuckolls

District 8:

John Carter

District 9:

Starling Tucker

 

Tennessee

 

Senators

 

John H. Eaton

Hugh L. White

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

John Blair

District 2:

Pryor Lea

District 3:

James C. Mitchell

District 4:

Jacob C. Isacks

District 5:

Robert Desha

District 6:

James K. Polk

District 7:

John Bell

District 8:

John H. Marable

District 9:

David Crockett

 

Vermont

 

Senators

 

Horatio Seymour

Dudley Chase

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Jonathan Hunt

District 2:

Rollin C. Mallary

District 3:

George E. Wales

District 4:

Benjamin Swift

District 5:

D. Azro A. Buck

 

Virginia

 

Senators

 

Littleton W. Tazewell

John Tyler

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Thomas Newton, Jr.

District 2:

James Trezvant

District 3:

William S. Archer

District 4:

Mark Alexander

District 5:

John Randolph of Roanoke

District 6:

Thomas Davenport

District 7:

Nathaniel H. Claiborne

District 8:

Burwell Bassett

District 9:

Andrew Stevenson

District 10:

William C. Rives

District 11:

Philip P. Barbour

District 12:

John Roane

District 13:

John Taliaferro

District 14:

Charles F. Mercer

District 15:

James S. Barbour

District 16:

William Armstrong

District 17:

Robert Allen

District 18:

Isaac Leffler

District 19:

William McCoy

District 20:

John Floyd

District 21:

Lewis Maxwell

District 22:

Alexander Smyth

 

Arkansas Territory
 

Delegate

 
Henry W. Conway (died November 9, 1827 as a result of wounds suffered in a duel with Robert Crittenden on October 29, 1827)
Ambrose H. Sevier (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Henry W. Conway; served from February 13, 1828)
 

Florida Territory

 

Delegate

 

Joseph M. White

 

Michigan Territory

 

Delegate

 

Austin E. Wing