Membership of the 25th Congress of the United States
 
March 4, 1837 to March 3, 1839
 
First Session:  September 4, 1837 to October 16, 1837
Second Session:  December 4, 1837 to July 9, 1838
Third Session:  December 3, 1838 to March 3, 1839
Special Session of the Senate:  March 4, 1837 to March 10, 1837
 

Vice President of the United States: 

Richard M. Johnson (Kentucky)

President Pro Tempore of the Senate: 

William R. King (Alabama)

Secretary of the Senate: 

Asbury Dickins (North Carolina)

Sergeant At Arms of the Senate:  

John Shackford (New Hampshire)
Stephen Haight (New York), from September 4, 1837

 

 

Speaker of the House of Representatives: 

James K. Polk (Tennessee)

Clerk of the House: 

Walter S. Franklin (Pennsylvania)
Hugh A. Garland (Virginia), from December 3, 1838

Sergeant At Arms of the House: 

Roderick Dorsey (Maryland)

Doorkeeper of the House: 

Overton Carr (Maryland)

 

Alabama

 

Senators

 

William R. King

John McKinley (resigned April 22, 1837 to become Associate Justice of the Supreme Court)

Clement Comer Clay (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John McKinley; served from June 19, 1837)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Reuben Chapman

District 2:

Joshua L. Martin

District 3:

Joab Lawler (died May 8, 1838)

George W. Crabb (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Joab Lawler; served from September 4, 1838)

District 4:

Dixon H. Lewis

District 5:

Francis S. Lyon

 

Arkansas

 

Senators

 

William S. Fulton

Ambrose H. Sevier

 

Representative At Large

 

Archibald Yell

 

Connecticut

 

Senators

 

John M. Niles

Perry Smith

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Isaac Toucey

District 2:

Samuel Ingham

District 3:

Thomas T. Whittlesey

District 4:

Elisha Haley

District 5:

Lancelot Phelps

District 6:

Orrin Holt

 

Delaware

 

Senators

 

Richard Henry Bayard

Thomas Clayton

 

Representative At Large

 

John J. Milligan

 

Georgia

 

Senators

 

John Pendleton King (resigned November 1, 1837)

Alfred Cuthbert

Wilson Lumpkin (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John King; served from November 22, 1837)

 

Representatives At Large

 

Jesse F. Cleveland

Seaton Grantland

Charles E. Haynes

Jabez Y. Jackson

George W. Owens

Thomas Glascock

Hopkins Holsey

William C. Dawson

George W. P. Towns
 

Illinois

 

Senators

 

John M. Robinson

Richard M. Young

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Adam W. Snyder
District 2: Zadoc Casey
District 3: William L. May
 

Indiana

 

Senators

 

John B. Tipton

Oliver H. Smith

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Ratliff Boon
District 2: John Ewing
District 3: William A. Graham
District 4: George H. Dunn
District 5: James Rariden
District 6: William Herod
District 7: Albert S. White
 

Kentucky

 

Senators

 

Henry Clay

John J. Crittenden

 

Representatives

 

District 1: John L. Murray
District 2: Edward Rumsey
District 3: Joseph R. Underwood
District 4: Sherrod Williams
District 5: James Harlan
District 6: John Caloon
District 7: John Pope
District 8: William J. Graves
District 9: John White
District 10: Richard Hawes
District 11: Richard H. Menefee
District 12: John Chambers
District 13: William W. Southgate
 

Louisiana

 

Senators

 

Robert C. Nicholas

Alexander Mouton

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Henry Johnson
District 2: Eleazar W. Ripley (died March 2, 1839)
District 3: Rice Garland
 

Maine

 

Senators

 

John Ruggles

Reuel Williams (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Ether Shepley in the previous Congress)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: John Fairfield (resigned December 24, 1838 to become Governor of Maine)
District 2: Francis O. J. Smith
District 3: Jonathan Cilley (killed February 24, 1838 in a duel with Representative William J. Graves)
Edward Robinson (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Jonathan Cilley; served from April 28, 1838)
District 4: George Evans
District 5: Timothy J. Carter (died March 14, 1838)

Virgil D. Parris (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Timothy J. Carter; served from May 29, 1838)

District 6: Hugh J. Anderson
District 7: Joseph C. Noyes
District 8: Thomas Davee
 

Maryland

 

Senators

 

Joseph Kent (died November 24, 1837)

John S. Spence

William D. Merrick (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Joseph Kent; served from January 4, 1838)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: John Dennis
District 2: James A. Pearce
District 3: John T. H. Worthington
District 4*: Benjamin C. Howard
Isaac McKim (died April 1, 1838)
John P. Kennedy (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Isaac McKim; served from April 25, 1838)
District 5: William C. Johnson
District 6: Francis Thomas
District 7: Daniel Jenifer
 
* Two-member district
 

Massachusetts

 

Senators

 

Daniel Webster

John Davis

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Richard Fletcher
District 2: Stephen C. Phillips (resigned September 28, 1838)
Leverett Saltonstall (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Stephen C. Phillips; served from December 5, 1838)
District 3: Caleb Cushing
District 4: William Parmenter
District 5: Levi Lincoln, Jr.
District 6: George Grennell, Jr.
District 7: George N. Briggs
District 8: William B. Calhoun
District 9: William S. Hastings
District 10: Nathaniel B. Borden
District 11: John Reed, Jr.
District 12: John Quincy Adams
 

Michigan

 

Senators

 

Lucius Lyon

John Norvell

 

Representative At Large

 

Isaac E. Crary
 

Mississippi

 

Senators

 

John Black (resigned January 22, 1838)

Robert J. Walker

James Fisher Trotter (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Black; served from January 22, 1838; resigned July 10, 1838)

Thomas Hickman Williams (appointed and subsequently elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James Trotter; served from November 12, 1838)

 

Representatives At Large

 

John F. H. Claiborne (seat declared vacant February 5, 1838)
Seargent S. Prentiss (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the voiding of the election of John F. H. Claiborne; served from May 30, 1838)
Samuel J. Gholson (seat declared vacant February 5, 1838)
Thomas J. Word (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the voiding of the election of Samuel J. Gholson; served from May 30, 1838)
 

Missouri

 

Senators

 

Thomas Hart Benton

Lewis F. Linn

 

Representatives At Large

 

John Miller

Albert G. Harrison

 

New Hampshire

 

Senators

 

Henry Hubbard

Franklin Pierce

 

Representatives At Large

 

Charles G. Atherton
James Farrington
Jared W. Williams
Samuel Cushman
Joseph Weeks
 

New Jersey

 

Senators

 

Samuel L. Southard

Garret D. Wall

 

Representatives At Large

 

John B. Aycrigg
William Halstead
John Maxwell
John F. Randolph
Charles C. Stratton
Thomas J. Yorke
 

New York

 

Senators

 

Silas Wright, Jr.

Nathaniel P. Tallmadge

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Thomas B. Jackson
District 2: Abraham Vanderveer
District 3*: Churchill C. Cambreleng
Edward Curtis
Ogden Hoffman
Ely Moore
District 4: Gouverneur Kemble
District 5: Obadiah Titus
District 6: Nathaniel Jones
District 7: John C. Brodhead
District 8†: Robert McClellan
Zadock Pratt
District 9: Henry Vail
District 10: Albert Gallup
District 11: John I. De Graff
District 12: David A. Russell
District 13: John Palmer
District 14: James B. Spencer
District 15: John Edwards
District 16: Arphaxed Loomis
District 17‡: Henry A. Foster
Abraham P. Grant
District 18: Isaac H. Bronson
District 19: John H. Prentiss
District 20: Amasa J. Parker
District 21: John C. Clark
District 22#: Andrew D. Bruyn (died July 27, 1838)

Cyrus Beers (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Andrew D. Bruyn; served from December 3, 1838)

Hiram Gray
District 23§: Bennet Bicknell
William Taylor
District 24: William H. Noble
District 25: Samuel Birdsall
District 26: Mark H. Sibley
District 27: John T. Andrews
District 28: Timothy Childs
District 29: William Patterson (died August 14, 1838)
Harvey Putnam (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William Patterson; served from November 7, 1838)
District 30: Luther C. Peck
District 31: Richard P. Marvin
District 32: Millard Fillmore
District 33: Charles F. Mitchell
 
* Four-member district
† Two-member district
‡ Two-member district
# Two-member district
§ Two-member district
 

North Carolina

 

Senators

 

Bedford Brown

Robert Strange

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Samuel T. Sawyer
District 2: Jesse A. Bynum
District 3: Edward Stanly
District 4: Charles B. Shepard
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
District 13: Lewis Williams
 

Ohio

 

Senators

 

Thomas Morris

William Allen

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Alexander Duncan
District 2: Taylor Webster
District 3: Patrick G. Goode
District 4: Thomas Corwin
District 5: Thomas L. Hamer
District 6: Calvary Morris
District 7: William K. Bond
District 8: Joseph Ridgway
District 9: John Chaney
District 10: Samson Mason
District 11: James Alexander, Jr.
District 12: Alexander Harper
District 13: David P. Leadbetter
District 14: William H. Hunter
District 15: John W. Allen
District 16: Elisha Whittlesey (resigned July 9, 1838)

Joshua R. Giddings (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Elisha Whittlesey; served from December 3, 1838)

District 17: Andrew W. Loomis (resigned October 20, 1837)
Charles D. Coffin (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Andrew W. Loomis; served from December 20, 1837)
District 18: Matthias Shepler
District 19: Daniel Kilgore (resigned July 4, 1838)
Henry Swearingen (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Daniel Kilgore; served from December 3, 1838)
 

Pennsylvania

 

Senators

 

Samuel McKean

James Buchanan

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Lemuel Paynter
District 2*: John Sergeant
George W. Toland
District 3: Francis J. Harper (died March 18, 1837)
Charles Naylor (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Francis J. Harper; served from June 29, 1837)
District 4†: Edward Davies
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 (resigned February 9, 1838 to become Minister to Austria)
George M. Keim (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Henry A.P. Muhlenberg; served from March 17, 1838)
District 10: Luther Reily
District 11: Henry Logan
District 12: Daniel Sheffer
District 13: Charles McClure
District 14: William W. Potter
District 15: David Petrikin
District 16: Robert H. Hammond
District 17: Samuel W. Morris
District 18: Charles Ogle
District 19: John Klingensmith, Jr.
District 20: Andrew Buchanan
District 21: Thomas M. T. McKennan
District 22: Richard Biddle
District 23: William Beatty
District 24: Thomas Henry
District 25: Arnold Plumer
 
* Two-member district
† Three-member district
 

Rhode Island

 

Senators

 

Nehemiah R. Knight

Asher Robbins

 

Representatives At Large

 

Robert B. Cranston
Joseph Tillinghast
 

South Carolina

 

Senators

 

John C. Calhoun

William C. Preston

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Hugh S. Legaré
District 2: Robert Barnwell Rhett
District 3: John Campbell
District 4: Franklin H. Elmore
District 5: Francis W. Pickens
District 6: Waddy Thompson, Jr.
District 7: William K. Clowney
District 8: John P. Richardson
District 9: John K. Griffin
 

Tennessee

 

Senators

 

Hugh L. White

Felix Grundy (resigned July 4, 1838 to become Attorney General of the United States)

Ephraim H. Foster (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Felix Grundy; served from September 17, 1838, to March 3, 1839; reelected for the term beginning March 4, 1839, but resigned, not wishing to obey instructions given him by the State legislature)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: William B. Carter
District 2: Abraham McClellan
District 3: Joseph L. Williams
District 4: James I. Standifer (died August 20, 1837)
William Stone (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James Standifer; served from September 14, 1837)
District 5: Hopkins L. Turney
District 6: William B. Campbell
District 7: John Bell
District 8: Abram P. Maury
District 9: James K. Polk
District 10: Ebenezer J. Shields
District 11: Richard Cheatham
District 12: John W. Crockett
District 13: Christopher H. Williams
 

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: Isaac Fletcher
 

Virginia

 

Senators

 

William Cabell Rives

Richard E. Parker (resigned March 13, 1837)

William H. Roane (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Richard E. Parker; served from March 14, 1837)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Francis Mallory
District 2: Francis E. Rives
District 3: John W. Jones
District 4: George C. Dromgoole
District 5: James W. Bouldin
District 6: Walter Coles
District 7: Archibald Stuart
District 8: Henry A. Wise
District 9: Robert M. T. Hunter
District 10: John Taliaferro
District 11: John Robertson
District 12: James Garland
District 13: John M. Patton (resigned April 7, 1838)
Linn Banks (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John M. Patton; served from April 28, 1838)
District 14: Charles F. Mercer
District 15: James M. Mason
District 16: Isaac S. Pennybacker
District 17: Robert Craig
District 18: George W. Hopkins
District 19: Andrew Beirne
District 20: Joseph Johnson
District 21: William S. Morgan
 

Florida Territory

 

Delegate

 

Charles Downing

 

Iowa Territory

 

Delegate

 

William W. Chapman (served from September 10, 1838)

 

Wisconsin Territory

 

Delegate

 

George W. Jones (succeeded January 14, 1839 by James D. Doty, who contested the election)

James D. Doty (successfully contested the election of George W. Jones; served from January 14, 1839)