Membership of the 23rd Congress of the United States
 
March 4, 1833 to March 3, 1835
 
First Session:  December 2, 1833 to June 30, 1834
Second Session:  December 1, 1834 to March 3, 1835
 

Vice President of the United States: 

Martin Van Buren (New York)

President Pro Tempore of the Senate: 

Hugh L. White (Tennessee)
George Poindexter (Mississippi), from June 28, 1834
John Tyler (Virginia), from March 3, 1835

Secretary of the Senate: 

Walter Lowrie (Pennsylvania)

Sergeant At Arms of the Senate: 

Mountjoy Bayly (Maryland)
John Shackford (New Hampshire), from December 9, 1833

   

Speaker of the House of Representatives: 

Andrew Stevenson (Virginia)
John Bell (Tennessee), from June 2, 1834

Clerk of the House: 

Matthew St. Clair Clarke (Pennsylvania)
Walter S. Franklin (Pennsylvania), from December 2, 1833

Sergeant At Arms of the House: 

John O. Dunn (District of Columbia)
Thomas B. Randolph (Virginia), from December 3, 1833

Doorkeeper of the House: 

Overton Carr (Maryland)

 

Alabama

 

Senators

 

William R. King

Gabriel Moore

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Clement Comer Clay
District 2: John McKinley
District 3: Samuel W. Mardis
District 4: Dixon H. Lewis
District 5: John Murphy
 

Connecticut

 

Senators

 

Gideon Tomlinson

Nathan Smith

 

Representatives At Large

 

Noyes Barber
William W. Ellsworth (resigned July 8, 1834)

Joseph Trumbull (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William W. Ellsworth; served from December 1, 1834)

Samuel Foot (resigned May 9, 1834 to become Governor of Connecticut)
Ebenezer Jackson, Jr. (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Samuel Foot; served from December 1, 1834)
Jabez W. Huntington (resigned August 16, 1834 to become judge of the State supreme court of errors)
Phineas Miner (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Jabez W. Huntington; served from December 1, 1834)
Samuel Tweedy
Ebenezer Young
 

Delaware

 

Senators

 

John Middleton Clayton

Arnold S. Naudain

 

Representative At Large

 

John J. Milligan
 

Georgia

 

Senators

 

George M. Troup (resigned November 8, 1833)

John Forsyth (resigned June 27, 1834 to become Secretary of State)

John Pendleton King (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of George M. Troup; served from November 21, 1833)

Alfred Cuthbert (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Forsyth; served from January 12, 1835)

 

Representatives At Large

 

Augustin S. Clayton
John Coffee
Thomas F. Foster
Roger L. Gamble
George R. Gilmer
Seaborn Jones
William Schley
James M. Wayne (resigned January 13, 1835 to become an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States)
Richard H. Wilde
 

Illinois

 

Senators

 

Elias K. Kane

John M. Robinson

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Charles Slade (died July 26, 1834)

John Reynolds (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Charles Slade; served from December 1, 1834)

District 2: Zadoc Casey
District 3: Joseph Duncan (resigned September 21, 1834 to become Governor of Illinois)
William L. May (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Joseph Duncan; served from December 1, 1834)
 

Indiana

 

Senators

 

William Hendricks

John B. Tipton

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Ratliff Boon
District 2: John Ewing
District 3: John Carr
District 4: Amos Lane
District 5: Johnathan McCarty
District 6: George L. Kinnard
District 7: Edward A. Hannegan
 

Kentucky

 

Senators

 

George M. Bibb

Henry Clay

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Chittenden Lyon
District 2: Albert G. Hawes
District 3: Christopher Tompkins
District 4: Martin Beaty
District 5: Robert P. Letcher (contested the election of Thomas P. Moore but the House did not seat either and declared a new election necessary; subsequently elected to fill the foregoing vacancy; served from August 6, 1834)
District 6: Thomas Chilton
District 7: Benjamin Hardin
District 8: Patrick H. Pope
District 9: James Love
District 10: Chilton Allan
District 11: Amos Davis
District 12: Thomas A. Marshall
District 13: Richard M. Johnson
 

Louisiana

 

Senators

 

Josiah S. Johnston (died May 18, 1833 in an explosion on the steamboat Lioness on the Red River in Louisiana)

George A. Waggaman

Alexander Porter (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Josiah S. Johnston; served from December 19, 1833)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Edward D. White (resigned November 15, 1834 to become Governor of Louisiana)
Henry Johnson (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Edward D. White; served from September 25, 1834)
District 2: Philemon Thomas
District 3: Henry A. Bullard (resigned January 4, 1834 to become judge of the supreme court of Louisiana)
Rice Garland (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Henry A. Bullard; served from April 28, 1834)
 

Maine

 

Senators

 

Peleg Sprague (resigned January 1, 1835)

Ether Shepley

John Ruggles (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Peleg Sprague; served from January 20, 1835)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Rufus McIntire
District 2: Francis O. J. Smith
District 3: Edward Kavanaugh
District 4: George Evans
District 5: Moses Mason, Jr.
District 6: Joseph Hall
District 7: Leonard Jarvis
District 8: Gorham Parks
 

Maryland

 

Senators

 

Ezekiel F. Chambers (resigned December 20, 1834)

Joseph Kent

Robert H. Goldsborough (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Ezekiel F. Chambers; served from January 13, 1835)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Littleton P. Dennis (died April 14, 1834)
John N. Steele (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Littleton P. Dennis; served from May 29, 1834)
District 2: Richard B. Carmichael
District 3: James Turner
District 4: James P. Heath
District 5: Isaac McKim
District 6: William C. Johnson
District 7: Francis Thomas
District 8: John Stoddart
 

Massachusetts

 

Senators

 

Nathaniel Silsbee

Daniel Webster

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Benjamin Gorham
District 2: Rufus Choate (resigned June 30, 1834)
Stephen C. Phillips (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Rufus Choate; served from December 1, 1834)
District 3:

Gayton P. Osgood

District 4: Edward Everett
District 5: John Davis (resigned January 14, 1834 to become Governor of Massachusetts)
Levi Lincoln, Jr. (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Davis; served from February 17, 1834)
District 6: George Grennell, Jr.
District 7: George N. Briggs
District 8: Isaac C. Bates
District 9: William Jackson
District 10: William Baylies
District 11: John Reed, Jr.
District 12: John Quincy Adams
 

Mississippi

 

Senators

 

George Poindexter

John Black (elected to fill the vacancy in the term commencing March 4, 1833; served from November 22, 1833)

 

Representatives At Large

 

Franklin E. Plummer
Harry Cage
 

Missouri

 

Senators

 

Thomas Hart Benton

Alexander Buckner (died of Asiatic cholera in Cape Girardeau, MO on June 6, 1833)

Lewis F. Linn (appointed and subsequently elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Alexander Buckner; served from October 25, 1833)

 

Representatives At Large

 

William H. Ashley

John Bull

 

New Hampshire

 

Senators

 

Samuel Bell

Isaac Hill

 

Representatives

 

Benning M. Bean
Robert Burns
Franklin Pierce
Henry Hubbard
Joseph M. Harper
 

New Jersey

 

Senators

 

Theodore Frelinghuysen

Samuel L. Southard

 

Representatives At Large

 

Philemon Dickerson
Samuel Fowler
Thomas Lee
James Parker
Ferdinand S. Schenck
William N. Shinn
 

New York

 

Senators

 

Silas Wright, Jr.

Nathaniel P. Tallmadge

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Abel Huntington

District 2:

Isaac B. Van Houten

District 3*:

Churchill C. Cambreleng

Cornelius W. Lawrence (resigned May 14, 1834 to become Mayor of New York City)

John J. Morgan (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Cornelius W. Lawrence; served from December 1, 1834)

Campbell P. White

Dudley Selden (resigned July 1, 1834)

Charles G. Ferris (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Dudley Selden; served from December 1, 1834)

District 4:

Aaron Ward

District 5:

Abraham Bockee

District 6:

John W. Brown

District 7:

Charles Bodle

District 8†:

John Adams

Aaron Vanderpoel

District 9:

Job Pierson

District 10:

Gerrit Y. Lansing

District 11:

John Cramer

District 12:

Henry C. Martindale

District 13:

Reuben Whallon

District 14:

Ransom H. Gillet

District 15:

Charles McVean

District 16:

Abijah Mann, Jr.

District 17‡:

Samuel Beardsley

Joel Turrill

District 18:

Daniel Wardwell

District 19:

Sherman Page

District 20:

Noadiah Johnson

District 21:

Henry Mitchell

District 22#:

Nicoll Halsey

Samuel G. Hathaway

District 23§:

William K. Fuller

 

William Taylor

District 24:

Rowland Day

District 25:

Samuel Clark

District 26:

John Dickinson

District 27:

Edward Howell

District 28:

Frederick Whittlesey

District 29:

George W. Lay

District 30:

Philo C. Fuller

District 31:

Abner Hazeltine

District 32:

Millard Fillmore

District 33:

Gideon Hard

 
* Four-member district
† Two-member district
‡ Two-member district
# Two-member district
§ Two-member district
 

North Carolina

 

Senators

 

Bedford Brown

Willie P. Mangum

 

Representatives

 

District 1: William B. Shepard
District 2: Jesse A. Bynum
District 3: Thomas H. Hall
District 4: Jesse Speight
District 5: James I. McKay
District 6: Micajah T. Hawkins
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: James Graham
District 13: Lewis Williams
 

Ohio

 

Senators

 

Thomas Ewing

Thomas Morris

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Robert T. Lytle (resigned March 10, 1834; reelected to fill the vacancy caused by his own resignation; served from December 27, 1834)
District 2: Taylor Webster
District 3: Joseph H. Crane
District 4: Thomas Corwin
District 5: Thomas L. Hamer
District 6: Samuel F. Vinton
District 7: William Allen
District 8: Jeremiah McLene
District 9: John Chaney
District 10: Joseph Vance
District 11: James M. Bell
District 12: Robert Mitchell
District 13: David Spangler
District 14: William Patterson
District 15: Jonathan Sloane
District 16: Elisha Whittlesey
District 17: John Thomson
District 18: Benjamin Jones
District 19: Humphrey H. Leavitt (resigned July 10, 1834 to become United States judge of the district court for the district of Ohio)
Daniel Kilgore (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Humphrey H. Leavitt; served from December 1, 1834)
 

Pennsylvania

 

Senators

 

William Wilkins (resigned June 30, 1834)

Samuel McKean

James Buchanan (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William Wilkins; served from December 6, 1834)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Joel B. Sutherland
District 2*: Horace Binney
James Harper
District 3: John G. Watmough
District 4†: William Hiester
Edward Darlington
David Potts, Jr.
District 5: Joel K. Mann
District 6: Robert Ramsey
District 7: David D. Wagener
District 8: Henry King
District 9: Henry A. P. Muhlenberg
District 10: William Clark
District 11: Charles A. Barnitz
District 12: George Chambers
District 13: Jesse Miller
District 14: Joseph Henderson
District 15: Andrew Beaumont
District 16: Joseph B. Anthony
District 17: John Laporte
District 18: George Burd
District 19: Richard Coulter
District 20: Andrew Stewart
District 21: Thomas M. T. McKennan
District 22: Harmar Denny
District 23: Samuel S. Harrison
District 24: John Banks
District 25: John Galbraith
 
* Two-member district
† Three-member district
 

Rhode Island

 

Senators

 

Nehemiah R. Knight

Asher Robbins

 

Representatives At Large

 

Tristam Burges

Dutee J. Pearce

 

South Carolina

 

Senators

 

John C. Calhoun

William C. Preston (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Stephen Miller; served from November 26, 1833)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Henry L. Pinckney
District 2: William J. Grayson
District 3: Thomas D. Singleton (died November 25, 1833)
Robert B. Campbell (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Thomas D. Singleton; served from February 27, 1834)
District 4: John M. Felder
District 5: George McDuffie (resigned 1834)
Francis W. Pickens (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of George McDuffie; served from December 8, 1834)
District 6: Warren R. Davis (died January 29, 1835)
District 7: William K. Clowney
District 8: James Blair (died April 1, 1834)
Richard I. Manning (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James Blair; served from December 8, 1834)
District 9: John K. Griffin
 

Tennessee

 

Senators

 

Hugh L. White

Felix Grundy

 

Representatives

 

District 1: John Blair
District 2: Samuel Bunch
District 3: Luke Lea
District 4: James I. Standifer
District 5: John B. Forester
District 6: Balie Peyton
District 7: John Bell
District 8: David W. Dickinson
District 9: James K. Polk
District 10: William M. Inge
District 11: Cave Johnson
District 12: David Crockett
District 13: William C. Dunlap
 

Vermont

 

Senators

 

Samuel Prentiss

Benjamin Swift

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Hiland Hall
District 2: William Slade
District 3: Horace Everett
District 4: Heman Allen
District 5: Benjamin F. Deming (died July 11, 1834)
  Henry F. Janes (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Benjamin F. Deming; served from December 2, 1834)
 

Virginia

 

Senators

 

John Tyler

William Cabell Rives (resigned February 22, 1834)

Benjamin W. Leigh (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William Cabell Rives; served from February 26, 1834)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: George Loyall
District 2: John Y. Mason
District 3: William S. Archer
District 4: James H. Gholson
District 5: John Randolph of Roanoke (died May 24, 1833)
Thomas T. Bouldin (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John Randolph of Roanoke; served from August 26, 1833; died February 11, 1834 while addressing the House of Representatives)
James W. Bouldin (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his brother, Thomas T. Bouldin; served from March 15, 1834)
District 6: Thomas Davenport
District 7: Nathaniel H. Claiborne
District 8: Henry A. Wise
District 9: William P. Taylor
District 10: Joseph W. Chinn
District 11: Andrew Stevenson (resigned June 2, 1834)

John Robertson (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Andrew Stevenson; served from December 8, 1834)

District 12: William F. Gordon
District 13: John M. Patton
District 14: Charles F. Mercer
District 15: Edward Lucas
District 16: James M. H. Beale
District 17: Samuel M. Moore
District 18: John H. Fulton
District 19: William McComas
District 20: John J. Allen
District 21: Edgar C. Wilson
 
Arkansas Territory
 

Delegate

 
Ambrose H. Sevier
 

Florida Territory

 

Delegate

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