Membership of the 27th Congress of the United States
 
March 4, 1841 to March 3, 1843
 
First Session:  May 31, 1841 to September 13, 1841
Second Session:  December 6, 1841 to August 31, 1842
Third Session:  December 5, 1842 to March 3, 1843
Special Session of the Senate:  March 4, 1841 to March 15, 1841
 

Vice President of the United States: 

John Tyler (Virginia)

President Pro Tempore of the Senate:

William R. King (Alabama)
Samuel L. Southard (New Jersey), from March 11, 1841
Willie P. Mangum (North Carolina), from May 31, 1842

Secretary of the Senate: 

Asbury Dickins (North Carolina)

Sergeant At Arms of the Senate: 

Stephen Haight (New York)
Edward Dyer (Maryland), from March 8, 1841

 

 

Speaker of the House of Representatives: 

John White (Kentucky)

Clerk of the House: 

Hugh A. Garland (Virginia)
Matthew St. Clair Clarke (Pennsylvania), from May 31, 1841

Sergeant At Arms of the House: 

Roderick Dorsey (Maryland)
Eleazor M. Townsend (Connecticut), from June 8, 1841

Doorkeeper of the House: 

Joseph Follansbee (Massachusetts)

 

Alabama

 

Senators

 

William R. King

Clement Comer Clay (resigned November 15, 1841)

Arthur P. Bagby (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Clement C. Clay; served from November 24, 1841)

 

Representatives At Large

 

Reuben Chapman

George S. Houston

Dixon H. Lewis

William W. Payne

Benjamin G. Shields

 

Arkansas

 

Senators

 

William S. Fulton

Ambrose H. Sevier

 

Representative At Large

 

Edward Cross

 

Connecticut

 

Senators

 

Perry Smith

Jabez W. Huntington

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Joseph Trumbull

District 2:

William W. Boardman

District 3:

Thomas W. Williams

District 4:

Thomas Osborn

District 5:

Truman Smith

District 6:

John H. Brockway

 

Delaware

 

Senators

 

Richard Henry Bayard

Thomas Clayton

 

Representative At Large

 

George B. Rodney

 

Georgia

 

Senators

 

Alfred Cuthbert

John M. Berrien

 

Representatives At Large

 

Julius C. Alford (resigned October 1, 1841)

Eugenius A. Nisbet (resigned October 12, 1841)

William C. Dawson (resigned November 13, 1841)

Richard W. Habersham (died December 2, 1842)

Lott Warren

Thomas B. King

Thomas F. Foster

Roger L. Gamble

James A. Meriwether

Edward J. Black (elected to fill in part the vacancies caused by the resignations of Julius C. Alford, William C. Dawson, and Eugenius A. Nisbet; served from January 3, 1842)

Walter T. Colquitt (elected to fill in part vacancies caused by the resignations of Julius C. Alford, William C. Dawson, and Eugenius A. Nisbet; served from January 3, 1842)

Mark A. Cooper (elected to fill in part vacancies caused by the resignations of Julius C. Alford, William C. Dawson, and Eugenius A. Nisbet; served from January 3, 1842)

George W. Crawford (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Richard W. Habersham; served from January 7, 1843)

 

Illinois

 

Senators

 

Richard M. Young

Samuel McRoberts

 

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:

Richard W. Thompson

District 3:

Joseph L. White

District 4:

James H. Cravens

District 5:

Andrew Kennedy

District 6:

David Wallace

District 7:

Henry S. Lane

 

Kentucky

 

Senators

 

Henry Clay (resigned March 31, 1842)

James T. Morehead

John J. Crittenden (appointed and subsequently elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Henry Clay; served from March 31, 1842)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Linn Boyd

District 2:

Philip Triplett

District 3:

Joseph R. Underwood

District 4:

Bryan Y. Owsley

District 5:

John B. Thompson

District 6:

Willis Green

District 7:

John Pope

District 8:

James C. Sprigg

District 9:

John White

District 10:

Thomas F. Marshall

District 11:

Landaff W. Andrews

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

Louisiana

 

Senators

 

Alexander Mouton (resigned March 1, 1842)

Alexander Barrow

Charles M. Conrad (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Alexander Mouton; served from April 14, 1842)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Edward D. White

District 2:

John B. Dawson

District 3:

John Moore

 

Maine

 

Senators

 

Reuel Williams (resigned February 15, 1843)

George Evans

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Nathan Clifford

District 2:

William Pitt Fessenden

District 3:

Benjamin Randall

District 4:

David Bronson (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of George Evans in the previous Congress; served from May 31, 1841)

District 5:

Nathaniel S. Littlefield

District 6:

Alfred Marshall

District 7:

Joshua A. Lowell

District 8:

Elisha H. Allen

 

Maryland

 

Senators

 

William D. Merrick

John L. Kerr

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Isaac D. Jones
District 2: James A. Pearce
District 3:

James W. Williams (died December 2, 1842)

Charles S. Sewall (elected to fill the vacancy which was caused by the death of James W. Williams served from January 2, 1843)
District 4*: John P. Kennedy
Alexander Randall
District 5: William C. Johnson
District 6: John T. Mason
District 7: Augustus R. Sollers
 
* Two-member district
 

Massachusetts

 

Senators

 

Isaac C. Bates

Rufus Choate

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Robert C. Winthrop (resigned May 25, 1842)

Nathan Appleton (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Robert C. Winthrop; served from June 9, 1842; resigned September 28, 1842)

Robert C. Winthrop (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of his successor, Nathan Appleton; served from November 29, 1842)
District 2: Leverett Saltonstall
District 3: Caleb Cushing
District 4: William Parmenter
District 5: Levi Lincoln, Jr. (resigned March 16, 1841 to become collector of the port of Boston)

Charles Hudson (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Levi Lincoln; served from May 3, 1841)

District 6: Osmyn Baker
District 7: George N. Briggs
District 8: William B. Calhoun
District 9: William S. Hastings (died June 17, 1842)
District 10: Nathaniel B. Borden
District 11: Barker Burnell
District 12: John Quincy Adams
 

Michigan

 

Senators

 

Augustus B. Porter

William Woodbridge

 

Representative At Large

 

Jacob M. Howard
 

Mississippi

 

Senators

 

Robert J. Walker

John Henderson

 

Representatives At Large

 

Jacob Thompson

William M. Gwin

 

Missouri

 

Senators

 

Thomas Hart Benton

Lewis F. Linn

 

Representative At Large

 

John Miller
John C. Edwards
 

New Hampshire

 

Senators

 

Franklin Pierce (resigned February 28, 1842)

Levi Woodbury

Leonard Wilcox (appointed and subsequently elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Franklin Pierce; served from March 1, 1842)

 

Representatives At Large

 

Charles G. Atherton
Edmund Burke
John R. Reding
Ira A. Eastman
Tristram Shaw
 

New Jersey

 

Senators

 

Samuel L. Southard (died June 26, 1842)

Jacob W. Miller

William L. Dayton (appointed and subsequently elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Samuel L. Southard; served from July 2, 1842)

 

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: Charles A. Floyd
District 2: Joseph Egbert
District 3*: Charles G. Ferris
John McKeon
James I. Roosevelt
Fernando Wood
District 4: Aaron Ward
District 5: Richard D. Davis
District 6: James G. Clinton
District 7: John Van Buren
District 8†: Jacob Houck, Jr.
Robert McClellan
District 9: Hiram P. Hunt
District 10: Daniel D. Barnard
District 11: Archibald L. Linn
District 12: Bernard Blair
District 13: Thomas A. Tomlinson
District 14: Henry B. Van Rensselaer
District 15: John W. A. Sanford
District 16: Andrew W. Doig
District 17‡:

David P. Brewster

John G. Floyd
District 18: Thomas C. Chittenden
District 19: Samuel S. Bowne
District 20: Samuel Gordon
District 21: John C. Clark
District 22#: Samuel Partridge
Lewis Riggs
District 23§: Victory Birdseye

A. Lawrence Foster

District 24: Christopher Morgan
District 25: John Maynard
District 26: Francis Granger (resigned March 5, 1841 to become Postmaster General of the United States)
John Greig (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Francis Granger; served from May 21, 1841; resigned September 25, 1841)
Francis Granger (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Greig; served from November 27, 1841)
District 27: William M. Oliver
District 28: Timothy Childs
District 29: Seth M. Gates
District 30: John Young
District 31: Staley N. Clarke
District 32: Millard Fillmore
District 33: Alfred Babcock
 
* Four-member district
† Two-member district
‡ Two-member district
# Two-member district
§ Two-member district
 

North Carolina

 

Senators

 

Willie P. Mangum

William A. Graham

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Kenneth Rayner
District 2: John R. J. Daniel
District 3: Edward Stanly
District 4: William H. Washington
District 5: James I. McKay
District 6: Archibald H. Arrington
District 7: Edmund Deberry
District 8: Romulus M. Saunders
District 9: Augustine H. Shepperd
District 10: Abraham Rencher
District 11: Greene W. Caldwell
District 12: James Graham
District 13: Lewis Williams (died February 23, 1842)
  Anderson Mitchell (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Lewis Williams; served from April 27, 1842)
 

Ohio

 

Senators

 

William Allen

Benjamin Tappan

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Nathanael G. Pendleton
District 2: John B. Weller
District 3: Patrick G. Goode
District 4: Jeremiah Morrow
District 5: William Doan
District 6: Calvary Morris
District 7: William Russell
District 8: Joseph Ridgway
District 9: William Medill
District 10: Samson Mason
District 11: Benjamin S. Cowen
District 12: Joshua Mathiot
District 13: James Matthews
District 14: George Sweeny
District 15: Sherlock J. Andrews
District 16: Joshua R. Giddings (resigned March 22, 1842 after censure by the House after presenting a series of resolutions related to slavery and negotiations with Great Britain; elected to fill the vacancy caused by his own resignation; served from December 5, 1842)
District 17: John Hastings
District 18: Ezra Dean
District 19: Samuel Stokely
 

Pennsylvania

 

Senators

 

James Buchanan

Daniel Sturgeon

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Charles Brown
District 2*: John Sergeant (resigned September 15, 1841)

Joseph R. Ingersoll (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Sergeant; served from October 12, 1841)

George W. Toland
District 3: Charles J. Ingersoll
District 4†: Jeremiah Brown
John Edwards
Francis James
District 5: Joseph Fornace
District 6: Robert Ramsey
District 7: John Westbrook
District 8: Peter Newhard
District 9: George M. Keim
District 10: William Simonton
District 11: James Gerry
District 12: James Cooper
District 13: Amos Gustine
District 14: James Irvin
District 15: Benjamin A. Bidlack
District 16: John Snyder
District 17: Davis Dimock, Jr. (died January 13, 1842)

Almon H. Read (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Davis Dimock, Jr.; served from March 18, 1842)

District 18: Charles Ogle (died May 10, 1841)
Henry Black (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Charles Ogle; served from June 28, 1841; died November 28, 1841)

James M. Russell (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Henry Black; served from December 21, 1841)

District 19: Albert G. Marchand
District 20: Enos Hook (resigned April 18, 1841)

Henry W. Beeson (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Enos Hook; served from May 31, 1841)

District 21: Joseph Lawrence (died April 17, 1842)
Thomas M. T. McKennan (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Joseph Lawrence; served from May 30, 1842)
District 22: William W. Irwin
District 23: William Jack
District 24: Thomas Henry
District 25: Arnold Plumer
 

Rhode Island

 

Senators

 

Nathan F. Dixon (died January 29,1842)

James H. Simmons

William Sprague III (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Nathan F. Dixon; served from February 18, 1842)

 

Representatives At Large

 

Robert B. Cranston
Joseph Tillinghast
 

South Carolina

 

Senators

 

John C. Calhoun (resigned March 3, 1843)

William C. Preston (resigned November 29, 1842)

George McDuffie (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William C. Preston; served from December 23, 1842)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Isaac E. Holmes
District 2: Robert Barnwell Rhett
District 3: John Campbell
District 4: Sampson H. Butler (resigned September 27, 1842)
Samuel W. Trotti (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Sampson H. Butler; served from December 17, 1842)
District 5: Francis W. Pickens
District 6: William Butler
District 7: James Rogers
District 8: Thomas D. Sumter
District 9: Patrick C. Caldwell
 

Tennessee

 

Senators

 

Alfred O. P. Nicholson (resigned February 7, 1842)

Vacant

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Thomas D. Arnold
District 2: Abraham McClellan
District 3: Joseph L. Williams
District 4: Thomas J. Campbell
District 5: Hopkins L. Turney
District 6: William B. Campbell
District 7: Robert L. Caruthers
District 8: Meredith P. Gentry
District 9: Harvey M. Watterson
District 10: Aaron V. Brown
District 11: Cave Johnson
District 12: Milton Brown
District 13: Christopher H. Williams
 

Vermont

 

Senators

 

Samuel Prentiss (resigned April 11, 1842 to become judge of the United States District Court of Vermont)

Samuel S. Phelps

Samuel Crafts (appointed and subsequently elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Samuel Prentiss; served from April 23, 1842)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Hiland Hall
District 2: William Slade
District 3: Horace Everett
District 4: Augustus Young
District 5: John Mattocks
 

Virginia

 

Senators

 

William Cabell Rives

William S. Archer

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Francis Mallory
District 2: George B. Cary
District 3: John W. Jones
District 4: William O. Goode
District 5: Edmund W. Hubard
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: