Membership of the 36th Congress of the United States
 
March 4, 1859 to March 3, 1861
 
First Session:  December 5, 1859 to June 25, 1860
Second Session:  December 3, 1860 to March 3, 1861
Special Session of the Senate:  March 4, 1859 to March 10, 1859; June 26, 1860 to June 28, 1860
 

Vice President of the United States: 

John C. Breckinridge (Kentucky)

President Pro Tempore of the Senate

Benjamin Fitzpatrick (Alabama)
Jesse D. Bright (Indiana), from June 12, 1860
Solomon Foote (Vermont), from February 16, 1861

Secretary of the Senate: 

Asbury Dickins (North Carolina)

Sergeant At Arms of the Senate

Dunning McNair (Pennsylvania)

 

 

Speaker of the House of Representatives: 

William Pennington (New Jersey), from February 1, 1860

Clerk of the House: 

James C. Allen (Illinois)
John W. Forney (Pennsylvania), from February 3, 1860

Sergeant At Arms of the House: 

Adam J. Glossbrenner (Pennsylvania)
Henry W. Hoffman (Maryland), from February 3, 1860

Doorkeeper of the House: 

George Marston (New Hampshire)

 

Alabama

 

Senators

 

Benjamin Fitzpatrick (withdrew January 24, 1861)

Clement Claiborne Clay (withdrew January 24, 1861)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: James A. Stallworth (withdrew January 21, 1861)
District 2: James L. Pugh (withdrew January 21, 1861)
District 3: David Clopton (withdrew January 21, 1861)
District 4: Sydenham Moore (withdrew January 21, 1861)
District 5: George S. Houston (withdrew January 21, 1861)
District 6: Williamson R. W. Cobb (withdrew January 30, 1861)
District 7: Jabez L. M. Curry (withdrew January 21, 1861)
 

Arkansas

 

Senators

 

William K. Sebastian

Robert W. Johnson

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Thomas C. Hindman
District 2: Albert Rust
 

California

 

Senators

 

William M. Gwin

David C. Broderick (died September 16, 1859 after being mortally wounded in a duel with the chief justice of the supreme court of California)

Henry P. Haun (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of David C. Broderick; served from November 3, 1859 to March 4, 1860, when Milton Latham was elected)

Milton S. Latham (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of David C. Broderick; served from March 5, 1860)

 

Representatives At Large

 

Charles L. Scott
John C. Burch
 

Connecticut

 

Senators

 

Lafayette S. Foster

James Dixon

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Dwight Loomis
District 2: John Woodruff
District 3: Alfred A. Burnham
District 4: Orris S. Ferry
 

Delaware

 

Senators

 

James Asheton Bayard, Jr.

Willard Saulsbury

 

Representative At Large

 

William G. Whiteley
 

Florida

 

Senators

 

Stephen R. Mallory (withdrew January 21, 1861)

David L. Yulee (withdrew January 21, 1861)

 

Representative At Large

 

George S. Hawkins (withdrew January 21, 1861)
 

Georgia

 

Senators

 

Robert A. Toombs (withdrew February 4, 1861)

Alfred Iverson, Sr. (withdrew January 28, 1861)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Peter E. Love (withdrew January 23, 1861)
District 2: Martin J. Crawford (withdrew January 23, 1861)
District 3: Thomas Hardeman (withdrew January 23, 1861)
District 4: Lucius J. Gartrell (withdrew January 23, 1861)
District 5: John W. H. Underwood (withdrew January 23, 1861)
District 6: James Jackson (withdrew January 23, 1861)
District 7: Joshua Hill (resigned January 23, 1861)
District 8: John J. Jones (withdrew January 23, 1861)
 

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: John A. McClernand (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Thomas L. Harris; served from November 8, 1859)
District 7: James C. Robinson
District 8: Philip B. Fouke
District 9: John A. Logan
 

Indiana

 

Senators

 

Jesse D. Bright

Graham N. Fitch

 

Representatives

 

District 1: William E. Niblack
District 2: William H. English
District 3: William M. Dunn
District 4: William S. Holman
District 5: David Kilgore
District 6: Albert G. Porter
District 7: John W. Davis
District 8: James F. Wilson
District 9: Schuyler Colfax
District 10: Charles Case
District 11: John U. Pettit
 

Iowa

 

Senators

 

James Harlan

James W. Grimes

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Samuel R. Curtis
District 2: William Vandever
 

Kansas (admitted as a state January 29, 1861)

 

Senators

 

Vacant

(Senators not elected to this Congress)

 

Representative At Large

 

Martin F. Conway (served from January 29, 1861)
 

Kentucky

 

Senators

 

John J. Crittenden

Lazarus W. Powell

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Henry C. Burnett
District 2: Samuel O. Peyton
District 3: Francis M. Bristow
District 4: William C. Anderson
District 5: John Y. Brown
District 6: Green Adams
District 7: Robert Mallory
District 8: William E. Simms
District 9: Laban T. Moore
District 10: John W. Stevenson
 

Louisiana

 

Senators

 

Judah P. Benjamin (withdrew February 4, 1861)

John Slidell (resigned February 4, 1861)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: John E. Bouligny
District 2: Miles Taylor (withdrew February 5, 1861)
District 3: Thomas G. Davidson
District 4: John M. Landrum
 

Maine

 

Senators

 

William Pitt Fessenden

Hannibal Hamlin (resigned January 17, 1861 to become Vice President of the United States)

Lot M. Morrill (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Hannibal Hamlin; served from January 17, 1861)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Daniel E. Somes
District 2: John J. Perry
District 3: Ezra B. French
District 4: Freeman H. Morse
District 5: Israel Washburn, Jr. (resigned January 1, 1861 to become Governor of Maine)
Stephen Coburn (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Israel Washburn, Jr.; served from January 2, 1861)
District 6: Stephen C. Foster
 

Maryland

 

Senators

 

James A. Pearce

Anthony Kennedy

 

Representatives

 

District 1: James A. Stewart
District 2: Edwin H. Webster
District 3: J. Morrison Harris
District 4: Henry W. Davis
District 5: Jacob M. Kunkel
District 6: George W. Hughes
 

Massachusetts

 

Senators

 

Charles Sumner

Henry Wilson

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Thomas D. Eliot
District 2: James Buffinton
District 3: Charles Francis Adams
District 4: Alexander H. Rice
District 5: Anson Burlingame
District 6: John B. Alley
District 7: Daniel W. Gooch
District 8: Charles R. Train
District 9: Eli Thayer
District 10: Charles Delano
District 11: Henry L. Dawes
 

Michigan

 

Senators

 

Zachariah Chandler

Kinsley S. Bingham

 

Representatives

 

District 1: George B. Cooper (election successfully contested by William A. Howard; succeeded May 15, 1860)
William A. Howard (successfully contested the election of George B. Cooper; served from May 15, 1860)
District 2: Henry Waldron
District 3: Francis W. Kellogg
District 4: De Witt C. Leach
 

Minnesota

 

Senators

 

Henry M. Rice

Morton S. Wilkinson

 

Representatives At Large

 

Cyrus Aldrich
William Windom
 

Mississippi

 

Senators

 

Albert Gallatin Brown (withdrew January 12, 1861)

Jefferson Davis (withdrew January 21, 1861)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Lucius Q. C. Lamar (resigned December, 1860)
District 2: Reuben Davis (withdrew January 12, 1861)
District 3: William Barksdale (withdrew January 12, 1861)
District 4: Otho R. Singleton (withdrew January 12, 1861)
District 5: John J. McRae (withdrew January 12, 1861)
 

Missouri

 

Senators

 

James S. Green

Trusten Polk

 

Representatives

 

District 1: John R. Barret (succeeded June 8, 1860 by Francis P. Blair, Jr., who contested the election)
Francis P. Blair, Jr. (successfully contested the election of John R. Barret; served from June 8, 1860; resigned June 25, 1860)
John R. Barret (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Francis P. Blair, Jr.; served from December 3, 1860)
District 2: Thomas L. Anderson
District 3: John B. Clark
District 4: James Craig
District 5: Samuel H. Woodson
District 6: John S. Phelps
District 7: John W. Noell
 

New Hampshire

 

Senators

 

John P. Hale

Daniel Clark

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Gilman Marston
District 2: Mason W. Tappan
District 3: Thomas M. Edwards
 

New Jersey

 

Senators

 

John R. Thomson

John C. Ten Eyck

 

Representatives

 

District 1: John T. Nixon
District 2: John L. N. Stratton
District 3: Garnett B. Adrain
District 4: Jetur R. Riggs
District 5: William Pennington
 

New York

 

Senators

 

William H. Seward

Preston King

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Luther C. Carter
District 2: James Humphrey
District 3: Daniel E. Sickles
District 4: Thomas J. Barr
District 5: William B. Maclay
District 6: John Cochrane
District 7: George Briggs
District 8: Horace F. Clark
District 9: John B. Haskin
District 10: Charles H. Van Wyck
District 11: William S. Kenyon
District 12: Charles L. Beale
District 13: Abram B. Olin
District 14: John H. Reynolds
District 15: James B. McKean
District 16: George W. Palmer
District 17: Francis E. Spinner
District 18: Clark B. Cochrane
District 19: James H. Graham
District 20: Roscoe Conkling
District 21: R. Holland Duell
District 22: M. Lindley Lee
District 23: Charles B. Hoard
District 24: Charles B. Sedgwick
District 25: Martin Butterfield
District 26: Emory B. Pottle
District 27: Alfred Wells
District 28: William Irvine
District 29: Alfred Ely
District 30: Augustus Frank
District 31: Silas M. Burroughs (died June 3, 1860)
Edwin R. Reynolds (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Silas M. Burroughs; served from December 5, 1860)
District 32: Elbridge G. Spaulding
District 33: Reuben E. Fenton
 

North Carolina

 

Senators

 

Thomas L. Clingman

Thomas Bragg

 

Representatives

 

District 1: William N. H. Smith
District 2: Thomas Ruffin
District 3: Warren Winslow
District 4: Lawrence O'B. Branch
District 5: John A. Gilmer
District 6: James M. Leach
District 7: Francis B. Craige
District 8: Zebulon B. Vance
 

Ohio

 

Senators

 

Benjamin F. Wade

George E. Pugh

 

Representatives

 

District 1: George H. Pendleton
District 2: John A. Gurley
District 3: Clement L. Vallandigham
District 4: William Allen
District 5: James M. Ashley
District 6: William Howard
District 7: Thomas Corwin
District 8: Benjamin Stanton
District 9: John Carey
District 10: Carey A. Trimble
District 11: Charles D. Martin
District 12: Samuel S. Cox
District 13: John Sherman
District 14: Cyrus Spink (died May 31, 1859)
  Harrison Gray Otis Blake (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Cyrus Spink; served from October 11, 1859)
District 15: William Helmick
District 16: Cydnor B. Tompkins
District 17: Thomas C. Theaker
District 18: Sidney Edgerton
District 19: Edward Wade
District 20: John Hutchins
District 21: John A. Bingham
 

Oregon

 

Senators

 

Joseph Lane

Edward D. Baker (elected to fill the vacancy in the term beginning March 4, 1859; served from October 2, 1860)

 

Representative At Large

 

Lansing Stout
 

Pennsylvania

 

Senators

 

William Bigler

Simon Cameron

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Thomas B. Florence
District 2: Edward J. Morris
District 3: John P. Verree
District 4: William Millward
District 5: John Wood
District 6: John Hickman
District 7: Henry C. Longnecker
District 8: John Schwartz (died June 20, 1860)
Jacob K. McKenty (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John Schwartz; served from December 3, 1860)
District 9: Thaddeus Stevens
District 10: John W. Killinger
District 11: James H. Campbell
District 12: George W. Scranton
District 13: William H. Dimmick
District 14: Galusha A. Grow
District 15: James T. Hale
District 16: Benjamin F. Junkin
District 17: Edward McPherson
District 18: Samuel S. Blair
District 19: John Covode
District 20: William Montgomery
District 21: James K. Moorhead
District 22: Robert McKnight
District 23: William Stewart
District 24: Chapin Hall
District 25: Elijah Babbitt
 

Rhode Island

 

Senators

 

James F. Simmons

Henry B. Anthony

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Christopher Robinson
District 2: William D. Brayton
 

South Carolina

 

Senators

 

James H. Hammond (withdrew November 11, 1860)

James Chesnut, Jr. (withdrew November 10, 1860)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: John McQueen (withdrew December 21, 1860)
District 2: William P. Miles (withdrew December, 1860)
District 3: Laurence M. Keitt (withdrew December, 1860)
District 4: Milledge L. Bonham (withdrew December 21, 1860)
District 5: John D. Ashmore (withdrew December 21, 1860)
District 6: William W. Boyce (withdrew December 21, 1860)
 

Tennessee

 

Senators

 

Andrew Johnson

Alfred O. P. Nicholson

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Thomas A. Rogers Nelson
District 2: Horace Maynard
District 3: Reese B. Brabson
District 4: William B. Stokes
District 5: Robert H. Hatton
District 6: James H. Thomas
District 7: John V. Wright
District 8: James M. Quarles
District 9: Emerson Etheridge
District 10: William T. Avery
 

Texas

 

Senators

 

Matthias Ward (resigned December 5, 1859, when Louis Wigfall was elected)

John Hemphill

Louis T. Wigfall (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of J. Pinckney Henderson; served from December 5, 1859)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: John H. Reagan
District 2: Andrew J. Hamilton
 

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: Daniel C. DeJarnette
District 4: William O. Goode (died July 3, 1859)
Roger A. Pryor (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William O. Goode; served from December 7, 1859)
District 5: Thomas S. Bocock
District 6: Shelton F. Leake
District 7: William Smith
District 8: Alexander R. Boteler
District 9: John T. Harris
District 10: Sherrard Clemens
District 11: Albert G. Jenkins
District 12: Henry A. Edmundson
District 13: Elbert S. Martin