Membership of the 29th Congress of the United States
 
March 4, 1845 to March 3, 1847
 
First Session:  December 1, 1845 to August 10, 1846
Second Session:  December 7, 1846 to March 3, 1847
Special Session of the Senate:  March 4, 1845 to March 20, 1845
 

Vice President of the United States: 

George M. Dallas (Pennsylvania)

President Pro Tempore of the Senate:

Ambrose H. Sevier (Arkansas)
David R. Atchison (Missouri), from August 6, 1846

Secretary of the Senate:

Asbury Dickins (North Carolina)

Sergeant At Arms of the Senate: 

Edward Dyer (Maryland)
Robert Beale (Virginia), from December 9, 1845

 

 

Speaker of the House of Representatives: 

John W. Davis (Indiana)

Clerk of the House: 

Benjamin B. French (New Hampshire)

Sergeant At Arms of the House: 

Newton Lane (Kentucky)

Doorkeeper of the House: 

Cornelius S. Whitney (District of Columbia)

   

Alabama

 

Senators

 

Arthur P. Bagby

Dixon H. Lewis

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Edmund S. Dargan
District 2: Henry W. Hilliard
District 3: William L. Yancey (resigned September 1, 1846)
James L. Cottrell (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William L. Yancey; served from December 7, 1846)
District 4: William W. Payne
District 5: George S. Houston
District 6: Reuben Chapman
District 7: Felix G. McConnell (died September 10, 1846)
Franklin W. Bowdon (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Felix G. McConnell; served from December 7, 1846)
 

Arkansas

 

Senators

 

Ambrose H. Sevier

Chester Ashley

 

Representative At Large

 

Archibald Yell (resigned July 1, 1846)
Thomas W. Newton (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Archibald Yell; served from February 6 to March 3, 1847)
 

Connecticut

 

Senators

 

Jabez W. Huntington

John M. Niles

 

Representatives

 

District 1: James Dixon
District 2: Samuel D. Hubbard
District 3: John A. Rockwell
District 4: Truman Smith
 

Delaware

 

Senators

 

Thomas Clayton

John Middleton Clayton

 

Representative At Large

 

John W. Houston
 

Florida (admitted as a state March 3, 1845)

 

Senators

 

David L. Yulee (served from July 1, 1845)

James D. Westcott (served from July 1, 1845)

 

Representative At Large

 

Edward C. Cabell (served from October 6, 1845; succeeded January 24, 1846 by William Brockenbororough, who contested the election)
William Brockenborough (successfully contested the election of Edward C. Cabell; served from January 24, 1846)
 

Georgia

 

Senators

 

John M. Berrien (resigned May, 1845 to become a justice on the Supreme Court of Georgia; elected to fill the vacancy caused by his own resignation; served from November 13, 1845)

Walter T. Colquitt

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Thomas B. King
District 2: Seaborn Jones
District 3: George W. P. Towns (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Representative-elect Washington Poe on March 4, 1845, before Congress convened; served from January 27, 1846.)
District 4: Hugh A. Haralson
District 5: John H. Lumpkin
District 6: Howell Cobb
District 7: Alexander H. Stephens
District 8: Robert A. Toombs
 

Illinois

 

Senators

 

Sidney Breese

James Semple

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Robert Smith
District 2: John A. McClernand
District 3: Orlando B. Ficklin
District 4: John Wentworth
District 5: Stephen A. Douglas (resigned March 3, 1847 to become Senator)
District 6: Joseph P. Hoge
District 7: Edward D. Baker (resigned December 24, 1846 to becomme colonel of the Fourth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry)
John Henry (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Edward D. Baker; served from February 5, 1847)
 

Indiana

 

Senators

 

Edward A. Hannegan

Jesse D. Bright

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Robert D. Owen
District 2: Thomas J. Henley
District 3: Thomas Smith
District 4: Caleb D. Smith
District 5: William W. Wick
District 6: John W. Davis
District 7: Edward W. McGaughey
District 8: John Pettit
District 9: Charles W. Cathcart
District 10: Andrew Kennedy
 
Iowa (admitted as a state December 28, 1846)
 

Senators

 
Vacant
 

Representatives At Large

 
S. Clinton Hastings (served from December 29, 1846)
Shepherd Leffler (served from December 29, 1846)

 

Kentucky

 

Senators

 

James T. Morehead

John J. Crittenden

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Linn Boyd
District 2: John H. McHenry
District 3: Henry Grider
District 4: Joshua F. Bell
District 5: Bryan R. Young
District 6: John P. Martin
District 7: William P. Thomasson
District 8: Garrett Davis
District 9: Andrew A. Trumbo
District 10: John W. Tibbatts
 

Louisiana

 

Senators

 

Alexander Barrow (died December 26, 1846)

Henry Johnson

Pierre Soulé (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Alexander Barrow; served from January 21, 1847)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: John Slidell (resigned November 10, 1845 to become Minister to Mexico)
Emile La Sére (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Slidell; served from January 29, 1846)
District 2: Bannon G. Thibodeaux
District 3: John H. Harmanson
District 4: Isaac E. Morse
 

Maine

 

Senators

 

George Evans

John Fairfield

 

Representatives

 

District 1: John F. Scammon
District 2: Robert P. Dunlap
District 3: Luther Severance
District 4: John D. McCrate
District 5: Cullen Sawtelle
District 6: Hannibal Hamlin
District 7: Hezekiah Williams
 

Maryland

 

Senators

 

James A. Pearce

Reverdy Johnson

 

Representatives

 

District 1: John G. Chapman
District 2: Thomas J. Perry
District 3: Thomas W. Ligon
District 4: William F. Giles
District 5: Albert Constable
District 6: Edward H. C. Long
 

Massachusetts

 

Senators

 

Isaac C. Bates (died March 16, 1845)

Daniel Webster

John Davis (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Isaac C. Bates; served from March 24, 1845)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Robert C. Winthrop
District 2: Daniel P. King
District 3: Amos Abbott
District 4: Benjamin Thompson
District 5: Charles Hudson
District 6: George Ashmun
District 7: Julius Rockwell
District 8: John Quincy Adams
District 9: Artemas Hale
District 10: Joseph Grinnell
 

Michigan

 

Senators

 

William Woodbridge

Lewis Cass

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Robert McClelland
District 2: John S. Chipman
District 3: James B. Hunt
 

Mississippi

 

Senators

 

Robert J. Walker (resigned March 5, 1845 to become Secretary of the Treasury)

Jesse Speight

Joseph W. Chalmers (appointed and subsequently elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Robert J. Walker; served from November 3, 1845)

 

Representatives At Large

 

Jacob Thompson
Stephen Adams
Robert W. Roberts
Jefferson Davis (resigned June 1846 to command the First Regiment of Mississippi Riflemen in the war with Mexico)
Henry T. Ellett (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Jefferson Davis; served from January 26, 1847)
 

Missouri

 

Senators

 

Thomas Hart Benton

David R. Atchison

 

Representatives At Large

 

John S. Phelps
James B. Bowlin
Sterling Price (resigned August 12, 1846 to become colonel of the Second Regiment, Missouri Infantry)
William McDaniel (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Sterling Price; served from December 7, 1846)
Leonard H. Sims
James H. Relfe
 

New Hampshire

 

Senators

 

Levi Woodbury (resigned November 20, 1845 to become an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States)

Charles G. Atherton

Benning W. Jenness (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Levi Woodbury; served from December 1, 1845, to June 13, 1846, when Joseph Cilley was elected)

Joseph Cilley (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Levi Woodbury; served from June 13, 1846)

 

Representatives At Large

 

James Johnson
Mace Moulton
Moses Norris, Jr., Jr.
 

New Jersey

 

Senators

 

Jacob W. Miller

William L. Dayton

 

Representatives

 

District 1: James G. Hampton
District 2: Samuel G. Wright (died July 30, 1845)
George Sykes (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Samuel G. Wright; served from November 4, 1845)
District 3: John Runk
District 4: Joseph E. Edsall
District 5: William Wright
 

New York

 

Senators

 

Daniel S. Dickinson

John A. Dix

 

Representatives

 

District 1: John W. Lawrence
District 2: Henry Seaman
District 3: William S. Miller
District 4: William B. Maclay
District 5: Thomas M. Woodruff
District 6: William W. Campbell
District 7: Joseph H. Anderson
District 8: William W. Woodworth
District 9: Archibald C. Niven
District 10: Samuel Gordon
District 11: John F. Collin
District 12: Richard P. Herrick (died June 20, 1846)
Thomas C. Ripley (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Richard P. Herrick; served from December 7, 1846)
District 13: Bradford R. Wood
District 14: Erastus D. Culver
District 15: Joseph Russell
District 16: Hugh L. White
District 17: Charles S. Benton
District 18: Preston King
District 19: Orville Hungerford
District 20: Timothy Jenkins
District 21: Charles Goodyear
District 22: Stephen Strong
District 23: William J. Hough
District 24: Horace Wheaton
District 25: George Rathbun
District 26: Samuel S. Ellsworth
District 27: John De Mott
District 28: Elias B. Holmes
District 29: Charles H. Carroll
District 30: Martin Grover
District 31: Abner Lewis
District 32: William A. Moseley
District 33: Albert Smith
District 34: Washington Hunt
 

North Carolina

 

Senators

 

Willie P. Mangum

William H. Haywood, Jr. (resigned July 25, 1846, having refused to be instructed by the State legislature on a tariff question)

George E. Badger (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William H. Haywood, Jr.; served from November 25, 1846)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: James Graham
District 2: Daniel M. Barringer
District 3: David S. Reid
District 4: Alfred Dockery
District 5: James C. Dobbin
District 6: James I. McKay
District 7: John R. J. Daniel
District 8: Henry S. Clark
District 9: Asa Biggs
 

Ohio

 

Senators

 

William Allen

Thomas Corwin

 

Representatives

 

District 1: James J. Faran
District 2: Francis A. Cunningham
District 3: Robert C. Schenck
District 4: Joseph Vance
District 5: William Sawyer
District 6: Henry St. John
District 7: Joseph J. McDowell
District 8: Allen G. Thurman
District 9: Augustus L. Perrill
District 10: Columbus Delano
District 11: Jacob Brinkerhoff
District 12: Samuel F. Vinton
District 13: Isaac Parrish
District 14: Alexander Harper
District 15: Joseph Morris
District 16: John D. Cummins
District 17: George Freis
District 18: David A. Starkweather
District 19: Daniel R. Tilden
District 20: Joshua R. Giddings
District 21: Joseph M. Root
 

Pennsylvania

 

Senators

 

James Buchanan (resigned March 5, 1845 to become Secretary of State)

Daniel Sturgeon

Simon Cameron (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James Buchanan; served from March 13, 1845)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Lewis C. Levin
District 2: Joseph R. Ingersoll
District 3: John H. Campbell
District 4: Charles J. Ingersoll
District 5: Jacob S. Yost
District 6: Jacob Erdman
District 7: Abraham R. McIlvaine
District 8: John Strohm
District 9: John Ritter
District 10: Richard Brodhead
District 11: Owen D. Leib
District 12: David Wilmot
District 13: James Pollock
District 14: Alexander Ramsey
District 15: Moses McClean
District 16: James Black
District 17: John Blanchard
District 18: Andrew Stewart
District 19: Henry D. Foster
District 20: John H. Ewing
District 21: Cornelius Darragh
District 22: William S. Garvin
District 23: James Thompson
District 24: Joseph Buffington
 

Rhode Island

 

Senators

 

James H. Simmons

Albert C. Greene

 

District 1: Henry Y. Cranston
District 2: Lemuel H. Arnold
 

South Carolina

 

Senators

 

George McDuffie (resigned August 17, 1846)

John C. Calhoun (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Daniel Elliott Huger in the previous Congress; served from November 26, 1845)

Andrew Pickens Butler (appointed and subsequently elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of George McDuffie; served from December 4, 1846)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

James A. Black

District 2:

Richard F. Simpson

District 3:

Joseph A. Woodward

District 4:

Alexander D. Sims

District 5:

Armistead Burt

District 6:

Isaac E. Holmes

District 7:

Robert Barnwell Rhett

 

Tennessee

 

Senators

 

Spencer Jarnagin

Hopkins L. Turney

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Andrew Johnson
District 2: William M. Cocke
District 3: John H. Crozier
District 4: Alvin Cullom
District 5: George W. Jones
District 6: Barclay Martin
District 7: Meredith P. Gentry
District 8: Joseph H. Peyton (died November 11, 1845)
Edwin H. Ewing (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Joseph H. Peyton; served from January 2, 1846)
District 9: Lucien B. Chase
District 10: Frederick P. Stanton
District 11: Milton Brown
 

Texas (admitted as a state December 29, 1845)

 

Senators

 

Sam Houston (served from February 21, 1846)

Thomas J. Rusk (served from February 21, 1846)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: David S. Kaufman (served from March 30, 1846)
District 2: Timothy Pilsbury (served from March 30, 1846)
 

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 S. Archer

Isaac S. Pennybacker (elected to fill the vacancy in the term beginning March 4, 1845 caused by the failure of the legislature to elect; served from December 3, 1845; died January 12, 1847)

James M. Mason (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Isaac S. Pennybacker; served from January 21, 1847)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Archibald Atkinson
District 2: George C. Dromgoole
District 3: William L. Treadway
District 4: Edmund W. Hubard
District 5: Shelton F. Leake
District 6: James A. Seddon
District 7: Thomas H. Bayly
District 8: Robert M. T. Hunter
District 9: John S. Pendleton
District 10: Henry Bedinger
District 11: William Taylor (died January 17, 1846)
James McDowell (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William Taylor; served from March 6, 1846)
District 12: Augustus A. Chapman
District 13: George W. Hopkins
District 14: Joseph Johnson
District 15: William G. Brown
 

Iowa Territory

 

Delegate

 

Augustus C. Dodge (served until December 28, 1846, when Iowa was admitted as a State)

 

Wisconsin Territory

 

Delegate

 

Morgan L. Martin