Membership of the 24th Congress of the United States
 
March 4, 1835 to March 3, 1837
 
First Session:  December 7, 1835 to July 4, 1836
Second Session:  December 5, 1836 to March 3, 1837
 

Vice President of the United States: 

Martin Van Buren (New York)

President Pro Tempore of the Senate: 

William R. King (Alabama)

Secretary of the Senate: 

Walter Lowrie (Pennsylvania)
Asbury Dickins (North Carolina), from December 12, 1836

Sergeant At Arms of the Senate: 

John Shackford (New Hampshire)

 

 

Speaker of the House of Representatives: 

James K. Polk (Tennessee)

Clerk of the House: 

Walter S. Franklin (Pennsylvania)

Sergeant At Arms of the House: 

Thomas B. Randolph (Virginia)
Roderick Dorsey (Maryland), from December 15, 1835

Doorkeeper of the House: 

Overton Carr (Maryland)

 

Alabama

 

Senators

 

William R. King

Gabriel Moore

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Reuben Chapman
District 2: Joshua L. Martin
District 3: Joab Lawler
District 4: Dixon H. Lewis
District 5: Francis S. Lyon
 

Arkansas (admitted as a state June 15, 1836)

 

Senators

 

William S. Fulton (served from September 18, 1836)

Ambrose H. Sevier (served from September 18, 1836)

 

Representative At Large

 
Archibald Yell (served from August 1, 1836)
 

Connecticut

 

Senators

 

Gideon Tomlinson

Nathan Smith (died December 6, 1835)

John M. Niles (appointed and subsequently elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Nathan Smith; served from December 21, 1835)

 

Representatives At Large

 

Elisha Haley
Samuel Ingham
Andrew T. Judson (resigned July 4, 1836 to become United States judge for the district of Connecticut)

Orrin Holt (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Andrew T. Judson; served from December 5, 1836)

Lancelot Phelps
Isaac Toucey
Zalmon Wildman (died December 10, 1835)

Thomas T. Whittlesey (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Zalmon Wildman; served from April 29, 1836)

 

Delaware

 

Senators

 

John Middleton Clayton (resigned December 29, 1836 to become Secretary of State)

Arnold S. Naudain (resigned June 16, 1836)

Richard Henry Bayard (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Arnold S. Naudain; served from June 17, 1836)

Thomas Clayton (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Clayton; served from January 9, 1837)

 

Representative At Large

 

John J. Milligan
 

Georgia

 

Senators

 

John Pendleton King

Alfred Cuthbert

 

 

Representatives At Large

 

George W. P. Towns (resigned September 1, 1836)
Julius C. Alford (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of George W. P. Towns; served from January 2, 1837)
William Schley (resigned July 1, 1835, having been nominated for Governor of Georgia)
Jesse F. Cleveland (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William Schley; served from October 5, 1835)
John Coffee (died October 3, 1836)
William C. Dawson (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John Coffee; served from November 7, 1836)
John W. A. Sanford (resigned July 25, 1835 to assist in the removal of the Cherokee Indians)
Thomas Glascock (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John W. A. Sanford; served from October 5, 1835)
Seaton Grantland
Charles E. Haynes
James C. Terrell (resigned July 8, 1835 due to ill health)

Hopkins Holsey (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James C. Terrell; served from October 5, 1835)

Jabez Y. Jackson (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James M. Wayne in the previous Congress; served from October 5, 1835)
George W. Owens
 

Illinois

 

Senators

 

Elias K. Kane (died December 12, 1835)

John M. Robinson

William L. D. Ewing (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Elias K. Kane; served from December 30, 1835)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: John Reynolds
District 2: Zadoc Casey
District 3: William L. May
 

Indiana

 

Senators

 

William Hendricks

John B. Tipton

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Ratliff Boon
District 2: John W. Davis
District 3: John Carr
District 4: Amos Lane
District 5: Johnathan McCarty
District 6: George L. Kinnard (died November 26, 1836 from injuries suffered in the explosion of the steamboat Flora on the Ohio River)

William Herod (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of George L. Kinnard; served from January 25, 1837)

District 7: Edward A. Hannegan
 

Kentucky

 

Senators

 

Henry Clay

John J. Crittenden

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Linn Boyd
District 2: Albert G. Hawes
District 3: Joseph R. Underwood
District 4: Sherrod Williams
District 5: James Harlan
District 6: John Caloon
District 7: Benjamin Hardin
District 8: William J. Graves
District 9: John White
District 10: Chilton Allan
District 11: Richard French
District 12: John Chambers
District 13:

Richard M. Johnson

 

Louisiana

 

Senators

 

Alexander Porter (resigned January 5, 1837 due to ill health)

Robert C. Nicholas (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Senator-elect Charles Gayarre; served from January 13, 1836)

Alexander Mouton (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Alexander Porter; served from January 12, 1837)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Henry Johnson
District 2: Eleazar W. Ripley
District 3: Rice Garland
 

Maine

 

Senators

 

Ether Shepley (resigned March 3, 1836)

John Ruggles

Judah Dana (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Ether Shepley; served from December 7, 1836)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: John Fairfield
District 2: Francis O. J. Smith

District 3:

Jeremiah Bailey
District 4: George Evans
District 5: Moses Mason, Jr.
District 6: Joseph Hall
District 7: Leonard Jarvis
District 8: Gorham Parks
 

Maryland

 

Senators

 

Robert H. Goldsborough (died October 5, 1836)

Joseph Kent

John S. Spence (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Robert H. Goldsborough; served from December 31, 1836)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: John N. Steele
District 2: James A. Pearce
District 3: James Turner
District 4*: Benjamin C. Howard
Isaac McKim
District 5: George C. Washington
District 6: Francis Thomas
District 7: Daniel Jenifer
 
* Two-member district
 

Massachusetts

 

Senators

 

Daniel Webster

John Davis

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Abbott Lawrence
District 2: Stephen C. Phillips
District 3: Caleb Cushing
District 4: Samuel Hoar
District 5: Levi Lincoln, Jr.
District 6: George Grennell, Jr.
District 7: George N. Briggs
District 8: William B. Calhoun
District 9: William Jackson
District 10: Nathaniel B. Borden
District 11: John Reed, Jr.
District 12: John Quincy Adams
 

Michigan (admitted as a state January 26, 1837)

 

Senators

 

Lucius Lyon (served from January 26, 1837)

John Norvell (served from January 26, 1837)

 

Representative At Large

 

Isaac E. Crary (served from January 26, 1837)
 

Mississippi

 

Senators

 

John Black

Robert J. Walker

 

Representatives At Large

 

John F. H. Claiborne
David Dickson (died July 31, 1836)
Samuel J. Gholson (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of David Dickson; served from December 1, 1836)
 

Missouri

 

Senators

 

Thomas Hart Benton

Lewis F. Linn

 

Representatives At Large

 

William H. Ashley
Albert G. Harrison
 

New Hampshire

 

Senators

 

Isaac Hill (resigned May 30, 1836 to become Governor of New Hampshire)

Henry Hubbard

John Page (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Isaac Hill; served from June 8, 1836)

 

Representatives At Large

 

Benning M. Bean

Robert Burns

Franklin Pierce

Samuel Cushman

Joseph Weeks

 

New Jersey

 

Senators

 

Samuel L. Southard

Garret D. Wall

 

Representatives At Large

 

Philemon Dickerson (resigned November 3, 1836 to become Governor of New Jersey)

William Chetwood (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Philemon Dickerson; served from December 5, 1836)

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: Samuel Barton
District 3*: Churchill C. Cambreleng
Campbell P. White (resigned 1835 before Congress convened)

Gideon Lee (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Campbell P. White; served from November 4, 1835)

John McKeon
Ely Moore
District 4: Aaron Ward
District 5: Abraham Bockee
District 6: John W. Brown
District 7: Nicholas Sickles
District 8†: Valentine Efner
Aaron Vanderpoel
District 9: Hiram P. Hunt
District 10: Gerrit Y. Lansing
District 11: John Cramer
District 12: David A. Russell
District 13: Dudley Farlin
District 14: Ransom H. Gillet
District 15: Matthias J. Bovee
District 16: Abijah Mann, Jr.
District 17‡: Samuel Beardsley (resigned March 29, 1836 to become associate judge of the New York Supreme Court)
Rutger B. Miller (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Samuel Beardsley; served from November 9, 1836)
Joel Turrill
District 18: Daniel Wardwell
District 19: Sherman Page
District 20: William Seymour
District 21: William Mason
District 22#: Stephen B. Leonard
Joseph Reynolds
District 23§: William K. Fuller
William Taylor
District 24: Ulysses F. Doubleday
District 25: Graham H. Chapin
District 26: Francis Granger
District 27: Joshua Lee
District 28: Timothy Childs
District 29: George W. Lay
District 30:

Philo C. Fuller (resigned September 2, 1836)

John Young (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Philo C. Fuller; served from November 9, 1836)

District 31: Abner Hazeltine
District 32: Thomas C. Love
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 (resigned November 26, 1836)

Robert Strange (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Willie P. Mangum; served from December 5, 1836)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: William B. Shepard
District 2: Jesse A. Bynum
District 3: Ebenezer Pettigrew
District 4: Jesse Speight
District 5: James I. McKay
District 6: Micajah T. Hawkins
District 7: Edmund Deberry
District 8: William Montgomery
District 9: Augustine H. Shepperd
District 10: Abraham Rencher
District 11: Henry W. Connor
District 12: James Graham (presented credentials as a Member-elect; served until March 29, 1836, when the seat was declared vacant; subsequently elected to the same Congress; served from December 5, 1836)
District 13: Lewis Williams
 

Ohio

 

Senators

 

Thomas Ewing

Thomas Morris

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Bellamy Storer
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 K. Bond
District 8: Jeremiah McLene
District 9: John Chaney
District 10: Samson Mason
District 11: William Kennon, Sr.
District 12: Elias Howell
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: Daniel Kilgore
 

Pennsylvania

 

Senators

 

Samuel McKean

James Buchanan

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Joel B. Sutherland
District 2*: Joseph R. Ingersoll
James Harper
District 3: Michael W. Ash
District 4†: William Hiester
Edward Darlington
David Potts, Jr.
District 5: Jacob Fry, Jr.
District 6: Mathias Morris
District 7: David D. Wagener
District 8: Edward B. Hubley
District 9: Henry A. P. Muhlenberg
District 10: William Clark
District 11: Henry Logan
District 12: George Chambers
District 13: Jesse Miller (resigned October 30, 1836 to become First Auditor of the Treasury Department)
James Black (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Jesse Miller; served from December 5, 1836)
District 14: Joseph Henderson
District 15: Andrew Beaumont
District 16: Joseph B. Anthony
District 17: John Laporte
District 18: Job Mann
District 19: John Klingensmith, Jr.
District 20: Andrew Buchanan
District 21: Thomas M. T. McKennan
District 22: Harmar Denny
District 23: Samuel S. Harrison
District 24: John Banks (resigned 1836)

John J. Pearson (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Banks; served from December 5, 1836)

District 25: John Galbraith
 
* Two-member district
† Three-member district
 

Rhode Island

 

Senators

 

Nehemiah R. Knight

Asher Robbins

 

Representatives At Large

 

William Sprague
Dutee J. Pearce
 

South Carolina

 

Senators

 

John C. Calhoun

William C. Preston

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Henry L. Pinckney
District 2: William J. Grayson
District 3: Robert B. Campbell
District 4: James H. Hammond (resigned February 26, 1836 due to ill health)
Franklin H. Elmore (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James H. Hammond; served from December 10, 1836)
District 5: Francis W. Pickens
District 6: Waddy Thompson, Jr.
District 7: James Rogers
District 8: Richard I. Manning (died May 1, 1936)
John P. Richardson (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Richard I. Manning; served from December 19, 1836)
District 9: John K. Griffin
 

Tennessee

 

Senators

 

Hugh L. White

Felix Grundy

 

Representatives

 

District 1: William B. Carter
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: Abram P. Maury
District 9: James K. Polk
District 10: Ebenezer J. Shields
District 11: Cave Johnson
District 12: Adam Huntsman
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: Henry F. Janes
 

Virginia

 

Senators

 

John Tyler (resigned February 29, 1836)

Benjamin W. Leigh (resigned July 4, 1836)

William Cabell Rives (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Tyler; served from March 4, 1836)

Richard E. Parker (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Benjamin W. Leigh; served from December 12, 1836)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: George Loyall
District 2: John Y. Mason (resigned January 11, 1837)
District 3: John W. Jones
District 4: George C. Dromgoole
District 5: James W. Bouldin
District 6: Walter Coles
District 7: Nathaniel H. Claiborne
District 8: Henry A. Wise
District 9: John Roane
District 10: John Taliaferro
District 11: John Robertson
District 12: James Garland
District 13: John M. Patton
District 14: Charles F. Mercer
District 15: Edward Lucas
District 16: James M. H. Beale
District 17: Robert Craig
District 18: George W. Hopkins
District 19: William McComas
District 20: Joseph Johnson
District 21: William S. Morgan
 
Arkansas Territory
 

Delegate

 
Ambrose H. Sevier (served until June 15, 1836, when Arkansas was admitted as a State)
 

Florida Territory

 

Delegate

 

Joseph M. White

 

Michigan Territory

 

Delegate

 

George W. Jones (served until December 5, 1836, when Michigan was admitted as a State)

 

Wisconsin Territory

 

Delegate

 

George W. Jones (served from December 5, 1836 when the Wisconsin Territory was formed from a portion of the Michigan Territory)