Membership of the 28th Congress of the United States
 
March 4, 1843 to March 3, 1845
 
First Session:  December 4, 1843 to June 17, 1844
Second Session:  December 2, 1844 to March 3, 1845
 

Vice President of the United States: 

Vacant

President Pro Tempore of the Senate: 

Willie P. Mangum (North Carolina)

Secretary of the Senate: 

Asbury Dickins (North Carolina)

Sergeant At Arms of the Senate: 

Edward Dyer (Maryland)

 

 

Speaker of the House of Representatives: 

John W. Jones (Virginia)

Clerk of the House:

Matthew St. Clair Clarke (Pennsylvania)
Caleb J. McNulty (Ohio), from December 6, 1843
Benjamin B.French (New Hampshire), from January 18, 1845

Sergeant At Arms of the House: 

Eleazor M. Townsend (Connecticut)
Newton Lane (Kentucky), from December 7, 1843

Doorkeeper of the House: 

Jesse E. Dow (Connecticut)

 

Alabama

 

Senators

 

William R. King (resigned April 15, 1844 to become Minister to France)

Arthur P. Bagby

Dixon H. Lewis (appointed and subsequently elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William R. King; served from April 22, 1844)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

James Dellet

District 2:

James E. Belser

District 3:

Dixon H. Lewis (resigned April 22, 1844 to become Senator)

William L. Yancey (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Dixon H. Lewis; served from December 2, 1844)

District 4:

William W. Payne

District 5:

George S. Houston

District 6:

Reuben Chapman

District 7:

Felix G. McConnell

 

Arkansas

 

Senators

 

William S. Fulton (died August 15, 1844)

Ambrose H. Sevier

Chester Ashley (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William S. Fulton; served from November 8, 1844)

 

Representative At Large

 

Edward Cross

 

Connecticut

 

Senators

 

Jabez W. Huntington

John M. Niles

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Thomas H. Seymour

District 2:

John Stewart

District 3:

George S. Catlin

District 4:

Samuel Simons

 

Delaware

 

Senators

 

Richard Henry Bayard

Thomas Clayton

 

Representative At Large

 

George B. Rodney

 

Georgia

 

Senators

 

John M. Berrien

Walter T. Colquitt

 

Representatives At Large

 

Edward J. Black

Mark A. Cooper (resigned June 26, 1843 to become a candidate for Governor of Georgia)

Alexander H. Stephens (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mark A. Cooper; served from October 2, 1843)

Howell Cobb

Hugh A. Haralson

John B. Lamar (resigned July 29, 1843)

Absalom H. Chappell (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Representative-elect John B. Lamar; served from October 2, 1843)

John H. Lumpkin

John Millen (died October 15, 1843)

Duncan L. Clinch (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John Millen; served from February 15, 1844)

William H. Stiles

 

Illinois

 

Senators

 

Samuel McRoberts (died March 27, 1843)

Sidney Breese

James Semple (appointed and subsequently elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Samuel McRoberts; served from December 4, 1843)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Robert Smith

District 2:

John A. McClernand

District 3:

Orlando  B. Ficklin

District 4:

John Wentworth

District 5:

Stephen A. Douglas

District 6:

Joseph P. Hoge

District 7:

John J. Hardin

 

Indiana

 

Senators

 

Albert S. White

Edward A. Hannegan

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Robert D. Owen

District 2:

Thomas J. Henley

District 3:

Thomas Smith

District 4:

Caleb B. Smith

District 5:

William J. Brown

District 6:

John W. Davis

District 7:

Joseph A. Wright

District 8:

John Pettit

District 9:

Samuel C. Sample

District 10:

Andrew Kennedy

 

Kentucky

 

Senators

 

James T. Morehead

John J. Crittenden

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Linn Boyd

District 2:

Willis Green

District 3:

Henry Grider

District 4:

George A. Caldwell

District 5:

James W. Stone

District 6:

John White

District 7:

William P. Thomasson

District 8:

Garrett Davis

District 9:

Richard French

District 10:

John W. Tibbatts

 

Louisiana

 

Senators

 

Alexander Barrow

Alexander Porter (elected to the term beginning March 4, 1843, but did not present credentials; died January 13, 1844)

Henry Johnson (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Alexander Porter; served from February 12, 1844)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

John Slidell

District 2:

Alcée La Branche

District 3:

John B. Dawson

District 4:

Pierre E. J. B. Bossier (died April 24, 1844)

Isaac E. Morse (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Pierre E. J. B. Bossier; served from December 2, 1844)

 

Maine

 

Senators

 

George Evans

John Fairfield

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Joshua Herrick

District 2:

Robert P. Dunlap

District 3:

Luther Severance

District 4:

Freeman H. Morse

District 5:

Benjamin White (served from December 2, 1844)

District 6:

Hannibal Hamlin

District 7:

Shepard Cary (served from May 10, 1844)

 

Maryland

 

Senators

 

William D. Merrick

James A. Pearce

 

Representatives

 

District 1: John M. S. Causin
District 2: Francis Brengle
District 3: John Wethered
District 4: John P. Kennedy
District 5: Jacob A. Preston
District 6: Thomas A. Spence
 

Massachusetts

 

Senators

 

Isaac C. Bates

Rufus Choate

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Robert C. Winthrop

District 2:

Daniel P. King

District 3:

Amos Abbott

District 4:

William Parmenter

District 5:

Charles Hudson

District 6:

Osmyn Baker

District 7:

Julius Rockwell

District 8:

John Quincy Adams

District 9:

Henry Williams

District 10:

Barker Burnell (died June 15, 1843)

 

Joseph Grinnell (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Barker Burnell; served from December 7, 1843)

 

Michigan

 

Senators

 

Augustus B. Porter

William Woodbridge

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Robert McClelland
District 2: James B. Hunt
District 3: Lucius Lyon
 

Mississippi

 

Senators

 

Robert J. Walker

John Henderson

 

Representatives At Large

 

Jacob Thompson
William H. Hammett
Robert W. Roberts
Tilghman M. Tucker
 

Missouri

 

Senators

 

Thomas Hart Benton

Lewis F. Linn (died October 3, 1843)

David R. Atchison (appointed and subsequently elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Lewis F. Linn; served from October 14, 1843)

 

Representatives At Large

 

Gustavus M. Bower
James B. Bowlin
James M. Hughes
John Jameson

James H. Relfe

 

New Hampshire

 

Senators

 

Levi Woodbury

Charles G. Atherton

 

Representatives At Large

 

John P. Hale

Edmund Burke

John R. Reding

Moses Norris, Jr., Jr.

 

 

New Jersey

 

Senators

 

Jacob W. Miller

William L. Dayton

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Lucius Q. C. Elmer
District 2: George Sykes
District 3: Isaac G. Farlee
District 4: Littleton Kirkpatrick
District 5: William Wright
 

New York

 

Senators

 

Silas Wright, Jr. (resigned November 26, 1844 to become Governor of New York)

Nathaniel P. Tallmadge (resigned June 17, 1844 to become Governor of the Wisconsin Territory)

Daniel S. Dickinson (appointed and subsequently elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Nathaniel P. Tallmadge; served from November 30, 1844)

Henry A. Foster (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Silas Wright, Jr.; served from November 30, 1844 to January 27, 1845 when John A. Dix was elected )

John A. Dix (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Silas Wright, Jr.; served from January 27, 1845)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Selah B. Strong
District 2: Henry C. Murphy
District 3: Jonas P. Phoenix
District 4: William B. Maclay
District 5: Moses G. Leonard
District 6: Hamilton Fish
District 7: Joseph H. Anderson
District 8: Richard D. Davis
District 9: James G. Clinton
District 10: Jeremiah Russell
District 11: Zadock Pratt
District 12: David L. Seymour
District 13: Daniel D. Barnard
District 14: Charles Rogers
District 15: Lemuel Stetson
District 16: Chesselden Ellis
District 17: Charles S. Benton
District 18: Preston King
District 19: Orville Hungerford
District 20: Samuel Beardsley (resigned February 29, 1844 to become an associate judge of the New York Supreme Court)
Levi D. Carpenter (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Samuel Beardsley; served from November 5, 1844)
District 21: Jeremiah E. Carey
District 22: Smith M. Purdy
District 23: Orville Robinson
District 24: Horace Wheaton
District 25: George Rathbun
District 26: Amasa Dana
District 27: Byram Green
District 28: Thomas J. Patterson
District 29: Charles H. Carroll
District 30: William S. Hubbell
District 31: Asher Tyler
District 32: William A. Moseley
District 33: Albert Smith
District 34: Washington Hunt
 

North Carolina

 

Senators

 

Willie P. Mangum

William H. Haywood, Jr.

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Thomas Clingman
District 2: Daniel M. Barringer
District 3: David S. Reid
District 4: Edmund Deberry
District 5: Romulus M. Saunders
District 6: James I. McKay
District 7: John R. J. Daniel
District 8: Archibald H. Arrington
District 9: Kenneth Rayner
 

Ohio

 

Senators

 

William Allen

Benjamin Tappan

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Alexander Duncan
District 2: John B. Weller
District 3: Robert C. Schenck
District 4: Joseph Vance
District 5: Emery D. Potter
District 6: Henry St. John
District 7: Joseph J. McDowell
District 8: John I. Vanmeter
District 9: Elias Florence
District 10: Heman A. Moore (died April 3, 1844)
Alfred P. Stone (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Heman A. Moore; served from October 8, 1844)
District 11: Jacob Brinkerhoff
District 12: Samuel F. Vinton
District 13: Perley B. Johnson
District 14: Alexander Harper
District 15: Joseph Morris
District 16: James Matthews
District 17: William C. McCauslen
District 18: Ezra Dean
District 19: Daniel R. Tilden
District 20: Joshua R. Giddings
District 21: Henry R. Brinkerhoff (died April 30, 1844)
Edward S. Hamlin (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Henry R. Brinkerhoff; served from October 8, 1844)
 

Pennsylvania

 

Senators

 

James Buchanan

Daniel Sturgeon

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Edward J. Morris
District 2: Joseph R. Ingersoll
District 3: John T. Smith
District 4: Charles J. Ingersoll
District 5: Jacob S. Yost
District 6: Michael H. Jenks
District 7: Abraham R. McIlvaine
District 8: Jeremiah Brown
District 9: John Ritter
District 10: Richard Brodhead
District 11: Benjamin A. Bidlack
District 12: Almon H. Read (died June 3, 1844)
George Fuller (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Almon H. Read; served from December 2, 1844)
District 13: Henry Frick (died March 1, 1844)
James Pollock (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Henry Frick; served from April 5, 1844)
District 14: Alexander Ramsey
District 15: Henry Nes
District 16: James Black
District 17: James Irvin
District 18: Andrew Stewart
District 19: Henry D. Foster
District 20: John Dickey
District 21: William Wilkins (resigned February 14, 1844 to become Secretary of War)
Cornelius Darragh (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William Wilkins; served from March 26, 1844)
District 22: Samuel Hays
District 23: Charles M. Reed
District 24: Joseph Buffington
 

Rhode Island

 

Senators

 

James H. Simmons

William Sprague III (resigned January 17, 1844)

John Brown Francis (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William Sprague; served from January 25, 1844)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Henry Y. Cranston
District 2: Elisha R. Potter
 

South Carolina

 

Senators

 

George McDuffie

Daniel Elliott Huger (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John C. Calhoun; served from March 4, 1843; resigned March 3, 1845)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: James A. Black
District 2: Richard F. Simpson
District 3: Joseph A. Woodward
District 4: John Campbell
District 5: Armistead Burt
District 6: Isaac E. Holmes
District 7: Robert Barnwell Rhett
 

Tennessee

 

Senators

 

Ephraim H. Foster (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Felix Grundy; served from October 17, 1843)

Spencer Jarnagin (served from October 17, 1843 after the general assembly previously adjourned without electing a Senator)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Andrew Johnson
District 2: William T. Senter
District 3: Julius W. Blackwell
District 4: Alvin Cullom
District 5: George W. Jones
District 6: Aaron V. Brown
District 7: David W. Dickinson
District 8: Joseph H. Peyton
District 9: Cave Johnson
District 10: John B. Ashe
District 11: Milton Brown
 

Vermont

 

Senators

 

Samuel S. Phelps

William Upham

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Solomon Foot
District 2: Jacob Collamer
District 3: George P. Marsh
District 4: Paul Dillingham, Jr.
 

Virginia

 

Senators

 

William Cabell Rives

William S. Archer

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Archibald Atkinson
District 2: George C. Dromgoole
District 3: Walter Coles
District 4: Edmund W. Hubard
District 5: Thomas W. Gilmer (resigned February 16, 1844 to become Secretary of the Navy)
William L. Goggin (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Thomas W. Gilmer; served from April 25, 1844)
District 6: John W. Jones
District 7: Henry A. Wise (resigned February 12, 1844)
Thomas H. Bayly (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Henry A. Wise; served from May 6, 1844)
District 8: Willoughby Newton
District 9: Samuel Chilton
District 10: William Lucas
District 11: William Taylor
District 12: Augustus A. Chapman
District 13: George W. Hopkins
District 14: George W. Summers
District 15: Lewis Steenrod
 

Florida Territory

 

Delegate

 

David L. Yulee

 

Iowa Territory

 

Delegate

 

Augustus C. Dodge

 

Wisconsin Territory

 

Delegate

 

Henry Dodge