Membership of the 6th Congress of the United States

 

March 4, 1799 to March 3, 1801

 

First Session:  December 2, 1799 to May 14, 1800

Second Session:  November 17, 1800 to March 3, 1801

 

Vice President of the United States:

Thomas Jefferson (Virginia)

President Pro Tempore of the Senate:

Samuel Livermore (New Hampshire), from December 2, 1799
Uriah Tracy (Connecticut), from May 14, 1800
John E. Howard (Maryland), from November 21, 1800
James Hillhouse (Connecticut), from February 28, 1801

Secretary of the Senate:

Samuel A. Otis (Massachusetts)

Doorkeeper of the Senate:

James Mathers (New York)

   

Speaker of the House of Representatives:

Theodore Sedgwick (Massachusetts)

Clerk of the House:

Jonathan W. Condy (Pennsylvania), resigned December 4, 1800
John H. Oswald (Pennsylvania), from December 9, 1800

Sergeant At Arms of the House:

Joseph Wheaton (Rhode Island)

Doorkeeper of the House:

Thomas Claxton

 

Connecticut

 

Senators

 

James Hillhouse

Uriah Tracy

 

Representatives At Large

 

Chauncey Goodrich

Roger Griswold

Samuel W. Dana

William Edmond

Jonathan Brace (resigned 1800)

John Cotton Smith (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Jonathan Brace; served from November 17, 1800)

John Davenport

Elizur Goodrich (resigned March 3, 1801)

 

Delaware

 

Senators

 

Henry Latimer (resigned February 28, 1801)

William H. Wells

Samuel White (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Henry Latimer; served from February 28, 1801)

 

Representative At Large

 

James Asheton Bayard

 

Georgia

 

Senators

 

James Gunn

Abraham Baldwin

 

Representatives At Large

 

James Jones (died January 11, 1801)

Benjamin Taliaferro

 

Kentucky

 

Senators

 

John Brown

Humphrey Marshall

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Thomas T. Davis

District 2:

John Fowler

 

Maryland

 

Senators

 

John Eager Howard

James Lloyd (resigned December 1, 1800)

William Hindman (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James Lloyd; served from December 12, 1800)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

George Dent

District 2:

John Chew Thomas

District 3:

William Craik

District 4:

George Baer, Jr.

District 5:

Samuel Smith

District 6:

Gabriel Christie

District 7:

Joseph H. Nicholson

District 8:

John Dennis

 

Massachusetts

 

Senators

 

Benjamin Goodhue (resigned November 8, 1800)

Samuel Dexter (resigned May 30, 1800 to become Secretary of War)

Dwight Foster (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Samuel Dexter; served from June 6, 1800)

Jonathan Mason (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Benjamin Goodhue; served from November 14, 1800)

 

Representatives

 
District 1:

Theodore Sedgwick

District 2:

William Shepard

District 3:

Samuel Lyman (resigned November 6, 1800)

Ebenezer Mattoon (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Samuel Lyman; served from February 2, 1801)

District 4:

Dwight Foster (resigned June 6, 1800 to become Senator)

Levi Lincoln (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Dwight Foster; served from December 15, 1800)

District 5:

Lemuel Williams

District 6:

John Reed

District 7:

Phanuel Bishop

District 8:

Harrison Gray Otis

District 9:

Joseph B. Varnum

District 10:

Samuel Sewall (resigned January 10, 1800)

Nathan Reed (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Samuel Sewall; served from November 25, 1800)

District 11:

Bailey Bartlett

District 12:

Silas Lee

District 13:

Peleg Wadsworth

District 14:

George Thatcher

 

New Hampshire

 

Senators

 

John Langdon

Samuel Livermore

 

Representatives At Large

 

Abiel Foster

Jonathan Freeman

James Sheafe

William Gordon (resigned June 12, 1800 to become attorney general of New Hampshire)

Samuel Tenney (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William Gordon; served from December 8, 1800)

 

New Jersey

 

Senators

 

James Schureman (elected on February 14, 1799, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Rutherfurd; served from March 4, 1799, resigned February 16, 1801)

Jonathan Dayton

Aaron Ogden (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James Schureman; served from February 28, 1801)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

John Condit

District 2:

Aaron Kitchell

District 3:

James Linn

District 4:

James H. Imlay

District 5:

Franklin Davenport

 

New York

 

Senators

 

John Laurance (resigned August, 1800)

James Watson (resigned March 19, 1800 to accept an appointment by President John Adams as United States naval officer at New York City)

Gouverneur Morris (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James Watson; served from April 3, 1800)

John Armstrong (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Laurance; served from November 6, 1800)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Jonathan N. Havens (died October 25, 1799)

 

John Smith (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Jonathan N. Havens; served from February 6, 1800)

District 2:

Edward Livingston

District 3:

Philip Van Cortlandt

District 4:

Lucius C. Elmendorf

District 5:

Theodorus Bailey

District 6:

John Bird

District 7:

John Thompson

District 8:

Henry Glen

District 9:

Jonas Platt

District 10:

William Cooper

 

North Carolina

 

Senators

 

Timothy Bloodworth

Jesse Franklin

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Joseph Dickson

District 2:

Archibald Henderson

District 3:

Robert Williams

District 4:

Richard Stanford

District 5:

Nathaniel Macon

District 6:

William H. Hill

District 7:

William B. Grove

District 8:

David Stone

District 9:

Willis Alston

District 10:

Richard D. Spaight

 

Pennsylvania

 

Senators

 

James Ross

William Bingham

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Robert Waln

District 2:

Michael Leib

District 3:

Richard Thomas

District 4*:

 

John Peter G. Muhlenberg

Robert Brown

District 5:

Joseph Hiester

District 6:

John A. Hanna

District 7:

John W. Kittera

District 8:

Thomas Hartley (died December 21, 1800)

John Stewart (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Thomas Hartley; served from January 15, 1801)

District 9:

Andrew Gregg

District 10:

Henry Woods

District 11:

John Smilie

District 12:

Albert Gallatin

 

* Two-member district

 

Rhode Island

 

Senators

 

Theodore Foster

Ray Greene

 

Representatives At Large

 

John Brown 

Christopher G. Champlin

 

South Carolina

 

Senators

 

Jacob Read

Charles Pinckney

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Thomas Pinckney 

District 2:

John Rutledge, Jr.

District 3:

Benjamin Huger

District 4:

Thomas Sumter

District 5:

Robert G. Harper

District 6:

Abraham Nott

 

Tennessee

 

Senators

 

Joseph Anderson

William Cocke

 

Representative At Large

 

William C. C. Claiborne

 

Vermont

 

Senators

 

Elijah Paine

Nathaniel Chipman

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Matthew Lyon

District 2:

Lewis R. Morris

 

Virginia

 

Senators

 

Stevens T. Mason

Wilson C. Nicholas (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Henry Tazewell; served from December 5, 1799)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Robert Page 

District 2:

David Holmes

District 3:

George Jackson

District 4:

Abram Trigg

District 5:

John Johns Trigg

District 6:

Matthew Clay

District 7:

John Randolph of Roanoke

District 8:

Samuel Goode

District 9:

Joseph Eggleston

District 10:

Edwin Gray

District 11:

Josiah Parker

District 12:

Thomas Evans

District 13:

 

John Marshall (resigned June 7, 1800 to become Secretary of State)

Littleton W. Tazewell (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Marshall; served from November 26, 1800)

District 14:

Samuel J. Cabell

District 15:

John Dawson

District 16:

Anthony New

District 17:

Leven Powell

District 18:

John Nicholas

District 19:

Henry Lee

 

Northwest Territory

 

Delegate

 

William Henry Harrison (resigned May 14, 1800 to become Territorial Governor of Indiana)

William McMillan (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William Henry Harrison; served from November 24, 1800)