Membership of the 21st Congress of the United States
 
March 4, 1829 to March 3, 1831
 
First Session:  December 7, 1829 to May 31, 1830
Second Session:  December 6, 1830 to March 3, 1831
Special Session of the Senate:  March 4, 1829 to March 17, 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

John McKinley

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Clement Comer Clay
District 2: Robert E. B. Baylor
District 3: Dixon H. Lewis
 

Connecticut

 

Senators

 

Calvin Willey

Samuel A. Foot

 

Representatives At Large

 

Noyes Barber
William W. Ellsworth
Jabez W. Huntington
Ralph I. Ingersoll
William L. Storrs
Ebenezer Young
 

Delaware

 

Senators

 

Louis McLane (resigned April 16, 1829 to become Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to England )

John Middleton Clayton

Arnold S. Naudain (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Louis McLane; served from January 13, 1830)

 

Representative At Large

 

Kensey Johns, Jr.
 

Georgia

 

Senators

 

John M. Berrien (resigned March 9, 1829 to become Attorney General of the United States)

George M. Troup

John Forsyth (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John M. Berrien; served from November 9, 1829)

 

Representatives At Large

 

James M. Wayne
Thomas F. Foster
Wilson Lumpkin
Charles E. Haynes
Henry G. Lamar (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the failure of George R. Gilmer to accept election; served from December 7, 1829)
Wiley Thompson
Richard H. Wilde
 

Illinois

 

Senators

 

Elias K. Kane

John McLean (died October 14, 1830)

David J. Baker (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John McLean; served from November 12, 1830 to December 11, 1830, when John M. Robinson was elected)

John M. Robinson (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John McLean; served from December 11, 1830)

 

Representative At Large

 

Joseph Duncan
 

Indiana

 

Senators

 

James Noble (died February 26, 1831)

William Hendricks

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Ratliff Boon
District 2: Jonathan Jennings
District 3: John Test
 

Kentucky

 

Senators

 

John Rowan

George M. Bibb

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Henry Daniel
District 2: Nicholas D. Coleman
District 3: James Clark
District 4: Robert Letcher
District 5: Richard M. Johnson
District 6: Joseph Lecompte
District 7: John Kincaid
District 8: Nathan Gaither
District 9: Charles A. Wickliffe
District 10: Joel Yancey
District 11: Thomas Chilton
District 12: Chittenden Lyon
 

Louisiana

 

Senators

 

Josiah S. Johnston

Edward Livingston

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Edward D. White
District 2: Henry H. Gurley
District 3: Walter H. Overton
 

Maine

 

Senators

 

John Holmes

Peleg Sprague

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Rufus McIntire
District 2: John Anderson
District 3: Joseph F. Wingate
District 4: George Evans (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Peleg Sprague in the previous Congress; served from July 20, 1829)
District 5: James W. Ripley (resigned March 12, 1830)
  Cornelius Holland (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James W. Ripley; served from December 6, 1830)
District 6: Leonard Jarvis
District 7: Samuel Butman
 

Maryland

 

Senators

 

Samuel Smith

Ezekiel F. Chambers

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Clement Dorsey
District 2: Benedict J. Semmes
District 3: George C. Washington
District 4: Michael C. Sprigg
District 5*: Elias Brown
Benjamin C. Howard
District 6: George E. Mitchell
District 7: Richard Spencer
District 8: Ephraim K. Wilson
 
* Two-member district
 

Massachusetts

 

Senators

 

Nathaniel Silsbee

Daniel Webster

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Benjamin Gorham
District 2: Benjamin W. Crowninshield
District 3: John Varnum
District 4: Edward Everett
District 5: John Davis
District 6: Joseph G. Kendall
District 7: George Grennell, Jr.
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

 

Powhatan Ellis

Thomas B. Reed (died November 26, 1829)

Robert Huntington Adams (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Thomas B. Reed; served from January 6, 1830; died July 2, 1830)

George Poindexter (appointed and subsequently elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Robert Adams; served from October 15, 1830)

 

Representative At Large

 

Thomas Hinds
 

Missouri

 

Senators

 

David Barton

Thomas Hart Benton

 

Representative At Large

 

Spencer D. Pettis
 

New Hampshire

 

Senators

 

Samuel Bell

Levi Woodbury

 

Representatives At Large

 

John Brodhead
Thomas Chandler
Joseph Hammons
Henry Hubbard
Jonathan Harvey
John W. Weeks
 

New Jersey

 

Senators

 

Mahlon Dickerson

Theodore Frelinghuysen

 

Representatives At Large

 

Isaac Pierson
Lewis Condict
Richard M. Cooper
James F. Randolph
Samuel Swan
Thomas Hughes
 

New York

 

Senators

 

Nathan Sanford

Charles E. Dudley

 

Representatives

 

District 1: James Lent
District 2: Jacob Crocheron
District 3*: Churchill C. Cambreleng
Gulian C. Verplanck
Campbell P. White
District 4: Henry B. Cowles
District 5: Abraham Bockee
District 6†: Hector Craig (resigned July 12, 1830 to become surveyor of the port of New York)
Samuel W. Eager (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Hector Craig; served from November 2, 1830)
District 7: Charles G. De Witt
District 8: James Strong
District 9: John D. Dickinson
District 10: Ambrose Spencer
District 11: Perkins King
District 12: Peter I. Borst
District 13: William G. Angel
District 14: Henry R. Storrs
District 15: Michael Hoffman
District 16: Benedict Arnold
District 17: John W. Taylor
District 18: Henry C. Martindale
District 19: Isaac Finch
District 20‡: George Fisher (succeeded February 5, 1830 by Silas Wright, Jr., who contested the election)
Silas Wright, Jr. (successfully contested the election of George Fisher; resigned March 9, 1830, never having qualified, preferring to remain as Comptroller of the State of New York)
Jonah Sanford (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Silas Wright, Jr.; served from November 3, 1830)
Joseph Hawkins
District 21: Robert Monell (resigned February 21, 1831)
District 22: Thomas Beekman
District 23: Jonas Earll, Jr.
District 24: Gershom Powers
District 25: Thomas Maxwell
District 26: Jehiel H. Halsey
Robert S. Rose
District 27: Timothy Childs
District 28: John Magee
District 29: Phineas L. Tracy
District 30: Ebenezer F. Norton
 
* Three-member district
† Two-member district
‡ Two-member district
 

North Carolina

 

Senators

 

John Branch (resigned March 9, 1829 to become Secretary of the Navy)

James Iredell

Bedford Brown (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Branch; served from December 9, 1829)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: William B. Shepard
District 2: Willis Alston
District 3: Thomas H. Hall
District 4: Jesse Speight
District 5: Gabriel Holmes (died September 26, 1829)
  Edward B. Dudley (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Gabriel Holmes; served from November 10, 1829)
District 6: Robert Potter
District 7: Edmund Deberry
District 8: Daniel L. Barringer
District 9: Augustine H. Shepperd
District 10: Abraham Rencher
District 11: Henry W. Connor
District 12: Samuel P. Carson
District 13: Lewis Williams
 

Ohio

 

Senators

 

Benjamin Ruggles

Jacob Burnet

 

Representatives

 

District 1: James Findlay
District 2: James Shields
District 3: Joseph H. Crane
District 4: Joseph Vance
District 5: William Russell
District 6: William Creighton, Jr.
District 7: Samuel F. Vinton
District 8: William Stanbery
District 9: William W. Irvin
District 10: William Kennon, Sr.
District 11: John M. Goodenow (resigned April 9, 1830 to become  a judge of the supreme court of Ohio)
Humphrey H. Leavitt (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John M. Goodenow; from December 6, 1830)
District 12: John Thomson
District 13: Elisha Whittlesey
District 14: Mordecai Bartley
 

Pennsylvania

 

Senators

 

William Marks

Isaac D. Barnard

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Joel B. Sutherland
District 2: Joseph Hemphill
District 3: Daniel H. Miller
District 4*: James Buchanan
Joshua Evans, Jr.
George G. Leiper
District 5: John B. Sterigere
District 6: Innis Green
District 7†: Henry A. P. Muhlenberg
Joseph Fry, Jr.
District 8‡: Samuel D. Ingham (resigned 1829 before Congress convened)
George Wolf (resigned 1829 before Congress convened)
Peter Ihrie, Jr. (elected to fill in part the vacancies caused by the resignation of George Wolf and Samuel D. Ingham; served from October 13, 1829)
Samuel A. Smith (elected to fill in part the vacancies caused by the resignation of George Wolf and Samuel D. Ingham; served from October 13, 1829)
District 9#: James Ford 
Alem Marr
Philander Stephens
District 10: Adam King
District 11§: William Ramsey
Thomas H. Crawford
District 12: John Scott
District 13: Chauncey Forward
District 14: Thomas Irwin
District 15: William McCreery
District 16¶: John Gilmore
William Wilkins (resigned 1829 before Congress convened)
Harmar Denny (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William Wilkins; served from December 15, 1829)
District 17: Richard Coulter
District 18: Thomas H. Sill
 
* 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: Robert W. Barnwell
District 3: John Campbell
District 4: William D. Martin
District 5: George McDuffie
District 6: Warren R. Davis
District 7: William T. Nuckolls
District 8: James Blair
District 9: Starling Tucker
 

Tennessee

 

Senators

 

John H. Eaton (resigned March 9, 1829 to become Secretary of War)

Hugh L. White

Felix Grundy (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John H. Eaton; served from October 19, 1829)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: John Blair
District 2: Pryor Lea
District 3: James I. Standifer
District 4: Jacob C. Isacks
District 5: Robert Desha
District 6: James K. Polk
District 7: John Bell
District 8: Cave Johnson
District 9: David Crockett
 

Vermont

 

Senators

 

Horatio Seymour

Dudley Chase

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Jonathan Hunt
District 2: Rollin C. Mallary
District 3: Horace Everett
District 4: Benjamin Swift
District 5: William Cahoon
 

Virginia

 

Senators

 

Littleton W. Tazewell

John Tyler

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Thomas Newton, Jr. (succeeded March 9, 1830 by George Loyall, who contested the election)
George Loyall (successfully contested the election of Thomas Newton, Jr.; served from March 9, 1830)
District 2: James Trezvant
District 3: William S. Archer
District 4: Mark Alexander
District 5: Thomas T. Bouldin
District 6: Thomas Davenport
District 7: Nathaniel H. Claiborne
District 8: Richard Coke, Jr.
District 9: Andrew Stevenson
District 10: William C. Rives (resigned 1829 to become Minister to France)
William F. Gordon (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William C. Rives; served from January 25, 1830)
District 11: Philip P. Barbour (resigned October 15, 1830)
John M. Patton (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Philip P. Barbour; served from November 25, 1830)
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: Philip Doddridge
District 19: William McCoy
District 20: Robert Craig
District 21: Lewis Maxwell
District 22: Alexander Smyth (died April 17, 1830)
  Joseph Draper (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Alexander Smyth; served from December 6, 1830)
 
Arkansas Territory
 

Delegate

 
Ambrose H. Sevier
 

Florida Territory

 

Delegate

 

Joseph M. White

 

Michigan Territory

 

Delegate

 

John Biddle (resigned February 21, 1831)