Membership of the 4th Congress of the United States

 
March 4, 1795 to March 3, 1797
First Session:  December 7, 1795 to June 1, 1796
Second Session:  December 5, 1796 to March 3, 1797
Special Session of the Senate:  June 8, 1795 to June 26, 1795
 

Vice President of the United States:

John Adams (Massachusetts)

President Pro Tempore of the Senate:

Henry Tazewell (Virginia), from December 7, 1795
Samuel Livermore (New Hampshire), from May 6, 1796
William Bingham (Pennsylvania), from February 16, 1797

Secretary of the Senate:

Samuel A. Otis (Massachusetts)

Doorkeeper of the Senate:

James Mathers (New York)

   

Speaker of the House of Representatives:

Jonathan Dayton (New Jersey)

Clerk of the House:

John Beckley (Virginia)

Sergeant At Arms of the House:

Joseph Wheaton (Rhode Island)

Doorkeeper of the House:

Thomas Claxton

 

Connecticut

 

Senators

 

Oliver Ellsworth (resigned March 8, 1796)

Jonathan Trumbull (resigned June 10, 1796)

James Hillhouse (elected on May 12, 1796 to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Oliver Ellsworth; served from December 1796)

Uriah Tracy (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Jonathan Trumbull; served from October 13, 1796)

 

Representatives At Large

 

Joshua Coit 

Chauncey Goodrich

Roger Griswold

James Hillhouse (resigned Fall, 1796 to become Senator)

James Davenport (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James Hillhouse; served from December 5, 1796)

Nathaniel Smith

Zephaniah Swift

Uriah Tracy (resigned October 13, 1796 to become Senator)

Samuel W. Dana (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Uriah Tracy; served from January 3, 1797)

 

Delaware

 

Senators

 

John M. Vining

Henry Latimer

 

Representative At Large

 

John Patten

 

Georgia

 

Senators

 

James Gunn

James Jackson (resigned 1795)
George Walton (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James Jackson; served from November 16, 1795 to February 20, 1796, when Josiah Tatnall was elected)

Josiah Tatnall (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James Jackson; served from February 20, 1796)

 

Representatives At Large

 

Abraham Baldwin

John Milledge

 

Kentucky

 

Senators

 

John Brown

Humphrey Marshall

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Christopher Greenup

District 2:

Alexander D. Orr

 

Maryland

 

Senators

 

John Henry

Richard Potts (resigned October 24, 1796)

John Eager Howard (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Richard Potts; served from November 30, 1796)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

George Dent

District 2:

 

Gabriel Duvall (resigned March 28, 1796 to become chief justice of the general court of Maryland)

Richard Sprigg (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Gabriel Duval; served from May 5, 1796)

District 3:

 

Jeremiah Crabb (resigned June 1, 1796)

William Craik (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Jeremiah Crabb; served from December 5, 1796)

District 4:

Thomas Sprigg

District 5:

Samuel Smith

District 6:

Gabriel Christie

District 7:

William Hindman

District 8:

William V. Murray

 

Massachusetts

 

Senators

 

Caleb Strong (resigned June 1, 1796)

George Cabot (resigned June 9, 1796)

Theodore Sedgewick (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Caleb Strong; served from June 11, 1796)

Benjamin Goodhue (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of George Cabot; served from June 11, 1796)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

 

Theodore Sedgwick (resigned June, 1796 to become Senator)

Thompson J. Skinner (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Theodore Sedgwick; served from January 27, 1797)

District 2:

William Lyman

District 3:

Samuel Lyman

District 4:

Dwight Foster

District 5:

Nathaniel Freeman, Jr.

District 6:

John Reed

District 7:

George Leonard

District 8:

Fisher Ames

District 9:

Joseph B. Varnum

District 10:

 

Benjamin Goodhue (resigned June 1796 to become Senator)

Samuel Sewall (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Benjamin Goodhue; served from December 7, 1796)

District 11:

Theophilius Bradbury

District 12:

Henry Dearborn

District 13:

Peleg Wadsworth

District 14:

George Thatcher

 

New Hampshire

 

Senators

 

John Langdon

Samuel Livermore

 

Representatives At Large

 

Abiel Foster

Nicholas Gilman

Jeremiah Smith

John S. Sherburne

 

New Jersey

 

Senators

 

John Rutherfurd

Frederick Frelinghuysen (resigned November 12, 1796)

Richard Stockton (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Frederick Frelinghuysen; served from November 12, 1796)

 

Representatives At Large

 

Aaron Kitchell

Thomas Henderson

Jonathan Dayton

Isaac Smith

Mark Thomson

 

New York

 

Senators

 

Rufus King (resigned May 1796 to become United States Minister to Great Britain)

Aaron Burr

John Laurance (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Rufus King; served from November 9, 1796)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Edward Livingston

District 2:

Jonathan N. Havens

District 3:

Philip Van Cortlandt

District 4:

John Hathorn

District 5:

Theodorus Bailey

District 6:

Ezekiel Gilbert

District 7:

John E. Van Alen

District 8:

Henry Glen

District 9:

John Williams

District 10:

William Cooper

 

North Carolina

 

Senators

 

Alexander Martin

Timothy Bloodworth

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

James Holland

District 2:

Matthew Locke

District 3:

Jesse Franklin

District 4:

 

Absalom Tatom (resigned June 1, 1796)

William F. Strudwick (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Absalom Tatom; served from November 28, 1796)

District 5:

Nathaniel Macon

District 6:

James Gillespie

District 7:

William B. Grove

District 8:

Dempsey Burges

District 9:

Thomas Blount

District 10:

Nathan Bryan

 

Pennsylvania

 

Senators

 

James Ross

William Bingham

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

John Swanwick

District 2:

Frederick A. C. Muhlenberg

District 3:

Richard Thomas

District 4*:

 

Samuel Sitgreaves

John Richards

District 5:

 

Daniel Hiester (resigned July 1, 1796)

George Ege (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Daniel Hiester; served from December 8, 1796)

District 6:

Samuel Maclay

District 7:

John W. Kittera

District 8:

Thomas Hartley

District 9:

Andrew Gregg

District 10:

David Bard

District 11:

William Findley

District 12:

Albert Gallatin

 

* Two-member district

 

Rhode Island

 

Senators

 

Theodore Foster

William Bradford

 

Representatives At Large

 

Benajmin Bourne (resigned 1796)

Elisha R. Potter (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Benjamin Bourne; served from November 15, 1796)

Francis Malbone

 

South Carolina

 

Senators

 

Pierce Butler (resigned October 25, 1796)

Jacob Read

John Hunter (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Pierce Butler; served from December 8, 1796)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

William L. Smith

District 2:

Wade Hampton

District 3:

Lemuel Benton

District 4:

Richard Winn

District 5:

Robert G. Harper

District 6:

Samuel Earle

 

Tennessee (admitted as a state June 1, 1796)

 

Senators

 

William Blount (served from August 2, 1796)

William Cocke (served from August 2, 1796)

 

Representative At Large

 

Andrew Jackson (served from December 5, 1796)

 

Vermont

 

Senators

 

Moses Robinson (resigned October 15, 1796)

Elijah Paine

Isaac Tichenor (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Moses Robinson; served from October 18, 1796)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Israel Smith

District 2:

Daniel Buck

 

Virginia

 

Senators

 

Henry Tazewell

Stevens T. Mason

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Robert Rutherford

District 2:

Andrew Moore

District 3:

George Jackson

District 4:

Francis Preston

District 5:

George Hancock

District 6:

Isaac Coles

District 7:

Abraham B. Venable

District 8:

Thomas Claiborne

District 9:

William B. Giles

District 10:

Carter B. Harrison

District 11:

Josiah Parker

District 12:

John Page

District 13:

John Clopton

District 14:

Samuel J. Cabell

District 15:

James Madison

District 16:

Anthony New

District 17:

Richard Brent

District 18:

John Nicholas

District 19:

John Heath

 

Territory Southwest of the Ohio River
 

Delegate

 
James White (served until June 1, 1796, when Tennessee was admitted as a State)