Membership of the 35th Congress of the United States
 
March 4, 1857 to March 3, 1859
 
First Session:  December 7, 1857 to June 14, 1858
Second Session:  December 6, 1858 to March 3, 1859
Special Session of the Senate:  March 4, 1857 to March 14, 1857; June 15, 1858 to June 16, 1858
 

Vice President of the United States: 

John C. Breckinridge (Kentucky)

President Pro Tempore of the Senate

James M. Mason (Virginia)
Thomas J. Rusk (Texas), from March 14, 1857
Benjamin Fitzpatrick (Alabama), from December 7, 1857

Secretary of the Senate: 

Asbury Dickens (North Carolina)

Sergeant At Arms of the Senate: 

Dunning R. McNair (Pennsylvania)

 

 

Speaker of the House of Representatives: 

James L. Orr (South Carolina)

Clerk of the House: 

William Cullom (Tennessee)
James C. Allen (Illinois), from December 7, 1857

Sergeant At Arms of the House: 

Adam J. Glossbrenner (Pennsylvania)

Doorkeeper of the House: 

Robert B. Hackney (Virginia)

 

Alabama

 

Senators

 

Benjamin Fitzpatrick

Clement Claiborne Clay

 

Representatives

 

District 1: James A. Stallworth
District 2: Eli S. Shorter
District 3: James F. Dowdell
District 4: Sydenham Moore
District 5: George S. Houston
District 6: Williamson R. W. Cobb
District 7: Jabez L. M. Curry
 

Arkansas

 

Senators

 

William K. Sebastian

Robert W. Johnson

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Alfred B. Greenwood
District 2: Edward A. Warren
 

California

 

Senators

 

William M. Gwin

David C. Broderick

 

Representatives At Large

 

Joseph C. McKibbin
Charles L. Scott
 

Connecticut

 

Senators

 

Lafayette S. Foster

James Dixon

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Ezra Clark, Jr.
District 2: Samuel Arnold
District 3: Sidney Dean
District 4: William D. Bishop
 

Delaware

 

Senators

 

James Asheton Bayard, Jr.

Martin Bates

 

Representative At Large

 

William G. Whiteley
 

Florida

 

Senators

 

Stephen R. Mallory

David L. Yulee

 

Representative At Large

 

George S. Hawkins
 

Georgia

 

Senators

 

Robert A. Toombs

Alfred Iverson, Sr.

 

Representatives

 

District 1: James L. Seward
District 2: Martin J. Crawford
District 3: Robert P. Trippe
District 4: Lucius J. Gartrell
District 5: Augustus R. Wright
District 6: James Jackson
District 7: Joshua Hill
District 8: Alexander H. Stephens
 

Illinois

 

Senators

 

Stephen A. Douglas

Lyman Trumbull

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Elihu B. Washburne
District 2: John F. Farnsworth
District 3: Owen Lovejoy
District 4: William Kellogg
District 5: Isaac N. Morris
District 6: Thomas L. Harris (died November 24, 1858)
Charles D. Hodges (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Thomas L. Harris; served from January 4, 1859)
District 7: Aaron Shaw
District 8: Robert Smith
District 9: Samuel S. Marshall
 

Indiana

 

Senators

 

Jesse D. Bright

Graham N. Fitch

 

Representatives

 

District 1: James Lockhart (died September 7, 1857)
William E. Niblack (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James Lockhart; served from December 7, 1857)
District 2: William H. English
District 3: James Hughes
District 4: James B. Foley
District 5: David Kilgore
District 6: James M. Gregg
District 7: John W. Davis
District 8: James F. Wilson
District 9: Schuyler Colfax
District 10: Samuel Brenton (died March 29, 1857)
Charles Case (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Samuel Brenton; served from December 7, 1857)
District 11: John U. Pettit
 

Iowa

 

Senators

 

George W. Jones

James Harlan

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Samuel R. Curtis
District 2: Timothy Davis
 

Kentucky

 

Senators

 

John B. Thompson

John J. Crittenden

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Henry C. Burnett
District 2: Samuel O. Peyton
District 3: Warner L. Underwood
District 4: Albert G. Talbott
District 5: Joshua H. Jewett
District 6: John M. Elliott
District 7: Humphrey Marshall
District 8: James B. Clay
District 9: John C. Mason
District 10: John W. Stevenson
 

Louisiana

 

Senators

 

Judah P. Benjamin

John Slidell

 

Representatives

 

District 1: George Eustis, Jr.
District 2: Miles Taylor
District 3: Thomas G. Davidson
District 4: John M. Sandidge
 

Maine

 

Senators

 

William Pitt Fessenden

Hannibal Hamlin

 

Representatives

 

District 1: John M. Wood
District 2: Charles J. Gilman
District 3: Nehemiah Abbott
District 4: Freeman H. Morse
District 5: Israel Washburn, Jr.
District 6: Stephen C. Foster
 

Maryland

 

Senators

 

James A. Pearce

Anthony Kennedy

 

Representatives

 

District 1: James A. Stewart
District 2: James B. Ricaud
District 3: J. Morrison Harris
District 4: Henry W. Davis
District 5: Jacob M. Kunkel
District 6: Thomas F. Bowie
 

Massachusetts

 

Senators

 

Charles Sumner

Henry Wilson

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Robert B. Hall
District 2: James Buffinton
District 3: William S. Damrell
District 4: Linus B. Comins
District 5: Anson Burlingame
District 6: Timothy Davis
District 7: Nathaniel P. Banks (resigned December 24, 1857 to become Governor of Massachusetts)
  Daniel W. Gooch (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Nathaniel P. Banks; served from January 31, 1858)
District 8: Chauncey L. Knapp
District 9: Eli Thayer
District 10: Clifford C. Chaffee
District 11: Henry L. Dawes
 

Michigan

 

Senators

 

Charles E. Stewart

Zachariah Chandler

 

Representatives

 

District 1: William A. Howard
District 2: Henry Waldron
District 3: David Walbridge
District 4: De Witt C. Leach
 

Minnesota (admitted as a state May 11, 1858)

 

Senators

 

Henry M. Rice (served from May 11, 1858)

James Shields (served from May 11, 1858)

 

Representatives At Large

 

James M. Cavanaugh (served from May 11, 1858)
William W. Phelps (served from May 11, 1858)
 

Mississippi

 

Senators

 

Albert Gallatin Brown

Jefferson Davis

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Lucius Q. C. Lamar
District 2: Reuben Davis
District 3: William Barksdale
District 4: Otho R. Singleton
District 5: John A. Quitman (died July 17, 1858)
John J. McRae (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John A. Quitman; served from December 7, 1858)
 

Missouri

 

Senators

 

James S. Green

Trusten Polk

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Francis P. Blair, Jr.
District 2: Thomas L. Anderson
District 3: John B. Clark (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Representative-elect James S. Green; served from December 7, 1857)
District 4: James Craig
District 5: Samuel H. Woodson
District 6: John S. Phelps
District 7: Samuel Caruthers
 

New Hampshire

 

Senators

 

James Bell (died May 26, 1857)

John P. Hale

Daniel Clark (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James Bell; served from June 27, 1857)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: James Pike
District 2: Mason W. Tappan
District 3: Aaron H. Cragin
 

New Jersey

 

Senators

 

John R. Thomson

William Wright

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Isaiah D. Clawson
District 2: George R. Robbins
District 3: Garnett B. Adrain
District 4: John Huyler
District 5: Jacob R. Wortendyke
 

New York

 

Senators

 

William H. Seward

Preston King

 

Representatives

 

District 1: John A. Searing
District 2: George Taylor
District 3: Daniel E. Sickles
District 4: John Kelly (resigned December 25, 1858)
Thomas J. Barr (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Kelly; served from January 17, 1859)
District 5: William B. Maclay
District 6: John Cochrane
District 7: Elijah Ward
District 8: Horace F. Clark
District 9: John B. Haskin
District 10: Ambrose S. Murray
District 11: William F. Russell
District 12: John Thompson
District 13: Abram B. Olin
District 14: Erastus Corning
District 15: Edward Dodd
District 16: George W. Palmer
District 17: Francis E. Spinner
District 18: Clark B. Cochrane
District 19: Oliver A. Morse
District 20: Orsamus B. Matteson
District 21: Henry Bennett
District 22: Henry C. Goodwin
District 23: Charles B. Hoard
District 24: Amos P. Granger
District 25: Edwin B. Morgan
District 26: Emory B. Pottle
District 27: John M. Parker
District 28: William H. Kelsey
District 29: Samuel G. Andrews
District 30: Judson W. Sherman
District 31: Silas M. Burroughs
District 32: Israel T. Hatch
District 33: Reuben E. Fenton
 

North Carolina

 

Senators

 

David S. Reid

Asa Biggs (resigned May 5, 1858 to become United States judge of the district of North Carolina)

Thomas L. Clingman (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Asa Biggs; served from May 7, 1858)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Henry M. Shaw
District 2: Thomas Ruffin
District 3: Warren Winslow
District 4: Lawrence O'B. Branch
District 5: John A. Gilmer
District 6: Alfred M. Scales
District 7: Francis B. Craige
District 8: Thomas L. Clingman (resigned May 7, 1858 to become Senator)
Zebulon B. Vance (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Thomas L. Clingman; served from December 7, 1858)
 

Ohio

 

Senators

 

Benjamin F. Wade 

George E. Pugh

 

Representatives

 

District 1: George H. Pendleton
District 2: William S. Groesbeck
District 3: Lewis D. Campbell (succeeded May 25, 1858 by Clement L. Vallandigham, who contested the election)
Clement L. Vallandigham (successfully contested the election of Lewis D. Campbell; served from May 25, 1858)
District 4: Matthias H. Nichols
District 5: Richard Mott
District 6: Joseph R. Cockerill
District 7: Aaron Harlan
District 8: Benjamin Stanton
District 9: Lawrence W. Hall
District 10: Joseph Miller
District 11: Valentine B. Horton
District 12: Samuel S. Cox
District 13: John Sherman
District 14: Philemon Bliss
District 15: Joseph Burns
District 16: Cydnor B. Tompkins
District 17: William Lawrence
District 18: Benjamin F. Leiter
District 19: Edward Wade
District 20: Joshua R. Giddings
District 21: John A. Bingham
 

Oregon (admitted as a state February 14, 1859)

 

Senators

 

Joseph Lane (served from February 14, 1859)

Delazon Smith (served from February 14, 1859)

 

Representative At Large

 

LaFayette Grover (served from February 15, 1859)
 

Pennsylvania

 

Senators

 

William Bigler

Simon Cameron

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Thomas B. Florence
District 2: Edward J. Morris
District 3: James Landy
District 4: Henry M. Phillips
District 6: Owen Jones
District 6: John Hickman
District 7: Henry Chapman
District 8: J. Glancy Jones (resigned October 30, 1858)
William H. Keim (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of J. Glancy Jones; served from December 7, 1858)
District 9: Anthony E. Roberts
District 10: John C. Kunkel
District 11: William L. Dewart
District 12: John G. Montgomery (died April 24, 1857, presumably from the effects of an illness contracted in Washington, DC during the inauguration of President Buchanan)
Paul Leidy (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John G. Montgomery; served from December 7, 1857)
District 13: William H. Dimmick
District 14: Galusha A. Grow
District 15: Allison White
District 16: John A. Ahl
District 17: Wilson Reilly
District 18: John R. Edie
District 19: John Covode
District 20: William Montgomery
District 21: David Ritchie
District 22: Samuel A. Purviance
District 23: William Stewart
District 24: James L. Gillis
District 25: John Dick
 

Rhode Island

 

Senators

 

Phillip Allen

James F. Simmons

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Nathaniel B. Durfee
District 2: William D. Brayton
 

South Carolina

 

Senators

 

Andrew Pickens Butler (died May 25, 1857)

Josiah J. Evans (died May 6, 1858)

James H. Hammond (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Andrew Pickens Butler; served from December 7, 1857)

Arthur P. Hayne (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Josiah J. Evans; served from May 11, 1858 to December 2, 1858, when James Chesnut, Jr. was elected)

James Chesnut, Jr. (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Josiah J. Evans; served from December 3, 1858)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: John McQueen
District 2: William P. Miles
District 3: Laurence M. Keitt
District 4: Milledge L. Bonham
District 5: James L. Orr
District 6: William W. Boyce
 

Tennessee

 

Senators

 

John Bell

Andrew Johnson (served from October 8, 1857)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Albert G. Watkins
District 2: Horace Maynard
District 3: Samuel A. Smith
District 4: John H. Savage
District 5: George Ready
District 6: George W. Jones
District 7: John V. Wright
District 8: Felix K. Zollicoffer
District 9: John D. C. Atkins
District 10: William T. Avery
 

Texas

 

Senators

 

Sam Houston

Thomas J. Rusk (committed suicide July 29, 1857)

J. Pinckney Henderson (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Thomas J. Rusk; served from November 9, 1857; died June 4, 1858)

Matthias Ward (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of J. Pinckney Henderson; served from September 27, 1858)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: John H. Reagan
District 2: Guy M. Bryan
 

Vermont

 

Senators

 

Solomon Foot

Jacob Collamer

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Eliakim P. Walton
District 2: Justin S. Morrill
District 3: Homer E. Royce
 

Virginia

 

Senators

 

James M. Mason

Robert M. T. Hunter

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Muscoe R. H. Garnett
District 2: John S. Millson
District 3: John S. Caskie
District 4: William O. Goode
District 5: Thomas S. Bocock
District 6: Paulus Powell
District 7: William Smith
District 8: Charles J. Faulkner
District 9: John Letcher
District 10: Sherrard Clemens
District 11: Albert G. Jenkins
District 12: Henry A. Edmundson
District 13: George W. Hopkins
 
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Wisconsin

 

Senators