Membership of the 26th Congress of the United States
 
March 4, 1839 to March 3, 1841
 
First Session:  December 2, 1839 to July 21, 1840
Second Sesssion:  December 7, 1840 to March 3, 1841
 

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: 

Stephen Haight (New York)

 

 

Speaker of the House of Representatives: 

Robert M. T. Hunter (Virginia)

Clerk of the House: 

Hugh A. Garland (Virginia)

Sergeant At Arms of the House: 

Roderick Dorsey (Maryland)

Doorkeeper of the House: 

Joseph Follansbee (Massachusetts)

 

Alabama

 

Senators

 

William R. King

Clement Comer Clay

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Reuben Chapman

District 2:

David Hubbard

District 3:

George W. Crabb

District 4:

Dixon H. Lewis

District 5:

James Dellet

 

Arkansas

 

Senators

 

William S. Fulton

Ambrose H. Sevier

 

Representative At Large

 

Edward Cross

 

Connecticut

 

Senators

 

Perry Smith

Thaddeus Betts (died April 7, 1840)

Jabez W. Huntington (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Thaddeus Betts; served from May 4, 1840)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Joseph Trumbull

District 2:

William L. Storrs (resigned June 1840)

William W. Boardman (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William L. Storrs; served from December 7, 1840)

District 3:

Thomas W. Williams

District 4:

Thomas Osborn

District 5:

Truman Smith

District 6:

John H. Brockway

 

Delaware

 

Senators

 

Richard Henry Bayard (resigned September 19, 1839 to become chief justice of Delaware; elected to fill the vacancy caused by his resignation; served from January 12, 1841)

Thomas Clayton

 

Representative At Large

 

Thomas Robinson, Jr.

 

Georgia

 

Senators

 

Alfred Cuthbert

Wilson Lumpkin

 

Representatives At Large

 

William C. Dawson

Walter T. Colquitt (resigned July 21, 1840)

Hines Holt (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Walter T. Colquitt; served from February 1, 1841)

Edward J. Black

Julius C. Alford

Mark A. Cooper

Richard W. Habersham

Thomas B. King

Eugenius A. Nisbet

Lott Warren

 

Illinois

 

Senators

 

John M. Robinson

Richard M. Young

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

John Reynolds

District 2:

Zadoc Casey

District 3:

John T. Stuart

 

Indiana

 

Senators

 

Oliver H. Smith

Albert S. White

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

George H. Proffit

District 2:

John W. Davis

District 3:

John Carr

District 4:

Thomas Smith

District 5:

James Rariden

District 6:

William W. Wick

District 7:

Tilghman A. Howard (resigned July 1, 1840)

Henry S. Lane (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Tilghman A. Howard; served from August 3, 1840)

 

Kentucky

 

Senators

 

Henry Clay

John J. Crittenden

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Linn Boyd

District 2:

Philip Triplett

District 3:

Joseph R. Underwood

District 4:

Sherrod Williams

District 5:

Simeon H. Anderson (died August 11, 1840)

John B. Thompson (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Simeon H. Anderson; served from December 7, 1840)

District 6:

Willis Green

District 7:

John Pope

District 8:

William J. Graves

District 9:

John White

District 10:

Richard Hawes

District 11:

Landaff W. Andrews

District 12: Garrett Davis
District 13: William O. Butler
 

Louisiana

 

Senators

 

Robert C. Nicholas

Alexander Mouton

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Edward D. White

District 2:

Thomas W. Chinn

District 3:

Rice Garland (resigned July 21, 1840 to become judge of the Supreme Court of Louisiana)

John Moore (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Rice Garland; served from December 17, 1840)

 

Maine

 

Senators

 

John Ruggles

Reuel Williams

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Nathan Clifford

District 2:

Albert Smith

District 3:

Benjamin Randall

District 4:

George Evans (resigned March 3, 1841 to become Senator)

District 5:

Virgil D. Parris

District 6:

Hugh J. Anderson

District 7:

Joshua A. Lowell

District 8:

Thomas Davee

 

Maryland

 

Senators

 

John S. Spence (died October 24, 1840)

William D. Merrick

John Kerr (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John S.  Spence; served from January 5, 1841)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: John Dennis
District 2: Phillip F. Thomas
District 3: John T. H. Worthington
District 4*: Solomon Hillen, Jr.
James Carroll
District 5: William C. Johnson
District 6: Francis Thomas
District 7: Daniel Jenifer
 
* Two-member district
 

Massachusetts

 

Senators

 

Daniel Webster (resigned February 22, 1841 to become Secretary of State)

John Davis (resigned January 5, 1841)

Isaac C. Bates (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Davis and on the same day elected for the term commencing March 4, 1841; served from January 13, 1841)

Rufus Choate (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Daniel Webster; served from February 23, 1841)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Abbott Lawrence (resigned September 18, 1840)
Robert C. Winthrop (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Abbott Lawrence; served from November 9, 1840)
District 2: Leverett Saltonstall
District 3: Caleb Cushing
District 4: William Parmenter
District 5: Levi Lincoln, Jr.
District 6: James C. Alvord (died September 27, 1839)
Osmyn Baker (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James C. Alvord; served from January 14, 1840)
District 7: George N. Briggs
District 8: William B. Calhoun
District 9: William S. Hastings
District 10: Henry Williams
District 11: John Reed, Jr.
District 12: John Quincy Adams
 

Michigan

 

Senators

 

John Norvell

Augustus B. Porter (elected to fill the vacancy in the term beginning March 4, 1839 caused by the failure of the legislature to elect; served from January 19, 1840)

 

Representative At Large

 

Isaac E. Crary
 

Mississippi

 

Senators

 

Robert J. Walker

John Henderson

 

Representatives At Large

 

Jacob Thompson
Albert Gallatin Brown
 

Missouri

 

Senators

 

Thomas Hart Benton

Lewis F. Linn

 

Representatives At Large

 

John Miller
Albert G. Harrison (died September 7, 1839)
John Jameson (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Albert G. Harrison; served from December 12, 1839)
 

New Hampshire

 

Senators

 

Henry Hubbard

Franklin Pierce

 

Representatives At Large

 

Charles G. Atherton
Edmund Burke
Jared W. Williams
Ira A. Eastman
Tristram Shaw
 

New Jersey

 

Senators

 

Samuel L. Southard

Garret D. Wall

 

Representatives At Large

 

William R. Cooper
Philemon Dickerson
Joseph Kille
John F. Randolph
Daniel B. Ryall
Peter D. Vroom
 

New York

 

Senators

 

Silas Wright, Jr.

Nathaniel P. Tallmadge

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Thomas B. Jackson
District 2: James De La Montanya
District 3*: Moses H. Grinnell
Edward Curtis
Ogden Hoffman
James Monroe
District 4: Gouverneur Kemble

District 5:

Charles Johnston
District 6: Nathaniel Jones
District 7: Rufus Palen
District 8†: John Ely
Aaron Vanderpoel
District 9: Hiram P. Hunt
District 10: Daniel D. Barnard
District 11: Anson Brown (died June 14, 1840)
Nicholas B. Doe (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Anson Brown; served from December 7, 1840)
District 12: David A. Russell
District 13: Augustus C. Hand
District 14: John Fine
District 15: Peter J. Wagner
District 16: Andrew W. Doig
District 17‡: David P. Brewster
John G. Floyd
District 18: Thomas C. Chittenden
District 19: John H. Prentiss
District 20: Judson Allen
District 21: John C. Clark
District 22#: Stephen B. Leonard
Amasa Dana
District 23§: Nehemiah H. Earll
Edward Rogers
District 24: Christopher Morgan
District 25: Theron R. Strong
District 26: Francis Granger
District 27: Meredith Mallory
District 28: Thomas Kempshall
District 29: Seth M. Gates
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 (resigned November 16, 1840 because he would not obey the instructions of the general assembly of North Carolina)

Robert Strange (resigned November 16, 1840)

William A. Graham (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Robert Strange; served from November 25, 1840)

Willie P. Mangum (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Bedford Brown; served from November 25, 1840)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Kenneth Rayner
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: John Hill
District 10: Charles Fisher
District 11: Henry W. Connor
District 12: James Graham
District 13: Lewis Williams
 

Ohio

 

Senators

 

William Allen

Benjamin Tappan

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Alexander Duncan
District 2: John B. Weller
District 3: Patrick G. Goode
District 4: Thomas Corwin (resigned May 30, 1840 to become a candidate for Governor of Ohio)
Jeremiah Morrow (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Thomas Corwin; served from October 13, 1840)
District 5: William Doan
District 6: Calvary Morris
District 7: William K. Bond
District 8: Joseph Ridgway
District 9: William Medill
District 10: Samson Mason
District 11: Isaac Parrish
District 12: Jonathan Taylor
District 13: David P. Leadbetter
District 14: George Sweeny
District 15: John W. Allen
District 16: Joshua R. Giddings
District 17: John Hastings
District 18: David A. Starkweather
District 19: Henry Swearingen
 

Pennsylvania

 

Senators

 

James Buchanan

Daniel Sturgeon (elected to fill the vacancy in the term commencing March 4, 1839 caused by the failure of the legislature to elect; served from January 14, 1840)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Lemuel Paynter
District 2*: John Sergeant
George W. Toland
District 3: Charles Naylor
District 4†: Edward Davies
John Edwards
Francis James
District 5: Joseph Fornace
District 6: John Davis
District 7: David D. Wagener
District 8: Peter Newhard
District 9: George M. Keim
District 10: William Simonton
District 11: James Gerry
District 12: James Cooper
District 13: William S. Ramsey (died October 17, 1840)
Charles McClure (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William S. Ramsey; served from December 7, 1840)
District 14:

William W. Potter (died October 28, 1839)

George McCulloch (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William W. Potter; served from November 20, 1839)
District 15: David Petrikin
District 16: Robert H. Hammond
District 17: Samuel W. Morris
District 18: Charles Ogle
District 19: Albert G. Marchand
District 20: Enos Hook
District 21: Isaac Leet
District 22: Richard Biddle (resigned 1840)
Henry M. Brackenridge (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Richard Biddle; served from October 13, 1840)
District 23: William Beatty
District 24: Thomas Henry
District 25: John Galbraith
 
* Two-member district
† Three-member district
 

Rhode Island

 

Senators

 

Nehemiah R. Knight

Nathan F. Dixon

 

Representatives At Large

 

Robert B. Cranston
Joseph Tillinghast
 

South Carolina

 

Senators

 

John C. Calhoun

William C. Preston

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Isaac E. Holmes
District 2: Robert Barnwell Rhett
District 3: John Campbell
District 4: Sampson H. Butler
District 5: Francis W. Pickens
District 6: Waddy Thompson, Jr.
District 7: James Rogers
District 8: Thomas D. Sumter
District 9: John K. Griffin
 

Tennessee

 

Senators

 

Hugh L. White (resigned January 13, 1840 because he could not conscientiously obey the instructions of his constituents)

Felix Grundy (elected to fill the vacancy in the term commencing March 4, 1839, caused by the resignation of Ephraim H. Foster; the question of his eligibility to election as Senator while holding the office of Attorney General of the United States having been raised, he resigned from the Senate on December 14, 1839, and was reelected the same day; served from December 14, 1839; died December 19, 1840)

Alexander O. Anderson (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Hugh L. White; served from February 26, 1840)

Alfred O. P. Nicholson (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Felix Grundy; served from December 25, 1840)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: William B. Carter
District 2: Abraham McClellan
District 3: Joseph L. Williams
District 4: Julius W. Blackwell
District 5: Hopkins L. Turney
District 6: William B. Campbell
District 7: John Bell
District 8: Meredith P. Gentry
District 9: Harvey M. Watterson
District 10: Aaron V. Brown
District 11: Cave Johnson
District 12: John W. Crockett
District 13: Christopher H. Williams
 

Vermont

 

Senators

 

Samuel Prentiss

Samuel S. Phelps

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Hiland Hall
District 2: William Slade
District 3: Horace Everett
District 4: John Smith
District 5: Isaac Fletcher
 

Virginia

 

Senators

 

William H. Roane

William Cabell Rives (elected to fill the vacancy in the term beginning March 4, 1839 caused by the failure of the legislature to elect; served from January 18, 1841)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Joel Holleman (resigned 1840)
Francis Mallory (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Joel Holleman; served from December 28, 1840)
District 2: Francis E. Rives
District 3: John W. Jones
District 4: George C. Dromgoole
District 5: John Hill
District 6: Walter Coles
District 7: William L. Goggin
District 8: Henry A. Wise
District 9: Robert M. T. Hunter
District 10: John Taliaferro
District 11: John M. Botts
District 12: James Garland
District 13: Linn Banks
District 14: Charles F. Mercer (resigned December 26, 1839)
William M. McCarty (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Charles F. Mercer; served from January 25, 1840)
District 15: William Lucas
District 16: Green B. Samuels
District 17: Robert Craig
District 18: George W. Hopkins
District 19: Andrew Beirne
District 20: Joseph Johnson
District 21: Lewis Steenrod
 

Florida Territory

 

Delegate

 

Charles Downing

 

Iowa Territory

 

Delegate

 

William W. Chapman (term expired October 27, 1840)

Augustus C. Dodge (served from October 28, 1840)

 

Wisconsin Territory

 

Delegate

 

James D. Doty