Membership of the 7th Congress of the United States

 

March 4, 1801 to March 3, 1803

 

First Session:  December 7, 1801 to May 3, 1802

Second Session:  December 6, 1802 to March 3, 1803

Special Session of the Senate:  March 4, 1801 to March 5, 1801

 

Vice President of the United States:

Aaron Burr (New York)

President Pro Tempore of the Senate:

Abraham Baldwin (Georgia)
Stephen R. Bradley (Vermont), from December 14, 1802

Secretary of the Senate:

Samuel A. Otis (Massachusetts)

Doorkeeper of the Senate:

James Mathers (New York)

   

Speaker of the House of Representatives:

Nathaniel Macon (North Carolina)

Clerk of the House:

John H. Oswald (Pennsylvania)
John Beckley (Virginia), from December 7, 1801

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

 

Roger Griswold

Samuel W. Dana

John Davenport

John Cotton Smith

Elias Perkins

Benjamin Tallmadge

Calvin Goddard (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Elizur Goodrich in the previous Congress; served from May 14, 1801)

 

Delaware

 

Senators

 

William H. Wells

Samuel White

 

Representative At Large

 

James Asheton Bayard

Georgia

 

Senators

 

Abraham Baldwin

James Jackson

 

Representatives At Large

 

Benjamin Taliaferro (resigned 1802)

David Meriwether (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Benjamin Taliaferro; served from December 6, 1802)

John Milledge (resigned May, 1802)

Peter Early (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Milledge; served from January 10, 1803)

 

Kentucky

 

Senators

 

John Brown

John Breckinridge

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Thomas T. Davis

District 2:

John Fowler

 

Maryland

 

Senators

 

John Eager Howard

William Hindman (reappointed to fill the vacancy in term beginning March 4, 1801 caused by failure of legislature to elect his successor; resigned November 19, 1801, when Robert Wright was elected)

Robert Wright (elected for the term starting March 4, 1801; served from November 19, 1801)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

John Campbell

District 2:

Richard Sprigg, Jr. (resigned February 11, 1802)

Walter Bowie (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Richard Sprigg, Jr.; served from March 24, 1802)

District 3:

Thomas Plater

District 4:

Daniel Hiester

District 5:

Samuel Smith

District 6:

John Archer

District 7:

Joseph H. Nicholson

District 8:

John Dennis

 

Massachusetts

 

Senators

 

Dwight Foster (resigned March 2, 1803)

Jonathan Mason

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

John Bacon

District 2:

William Shepard

District 3:

Ebenezer Mattoon

District 4:

Levi Lincoln (resigned March 5, 1801 to become Attorney General of the United States)

Seth Hastings (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Levi Lincoln; served from August 24, 1801)

District 5:

Lemuel Williams

District 6:

Josiah Smith

District 7:

Phanuel Bishop

District 8:

William Eustis

District 9:

Joseph B. Varnum

District 10:

Nathan Read

District 11:

Manasseh Cutler

District 12:

Silas Lee (resigned August 20, 1801)

Samuel Thatcher (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Silas Lee; served from December 6, 1802)

District 13:

Peleg Wadsworth

District 14:

Richard Cutts

 

New Hampshire

 

Senators

 

Samuel Livermore (resigned June 12, 1801 due to ill health)

James Sheafe (resigned June 14, 1802)

Simeon Olcott (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Samuel Livermore; served from June 17, 1801)

William Plumer (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James Sheafe; served from June 17, 1802)

 

Representatives At Large

 

Abiel Foster

Joseph Peirce (resigned 1802)

Samuel Hunt (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Joseph Peirce; served from December 6, 1802)

George B. Upham

Samuel Tenney

 

New Jersey

 

Senators

 

Jonathan Dayton

Aaron Ogden

 

Representatives At Large

 

John Condit

William Helms

Henry Southard

James Mott

Ebenezer Elmer

 

 

New York

 

Senators

Gouverneur Morris

John Armstrong (resigned February 5, 1802)

De Witt Clinton (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Armstrong; served from February 9, 1802)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

John Smith

District 2:

Samuel L. Mitchell

District 3:

Philip Van Cortlandt

District 4:

Lucius C. Elmendorf

District 5:

 

Thomas Tillotson (resigned August 10, 1801 without qualifying or taking his seat to become Secretary of State of New York)

Theodorus Bailey (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Thomas Tillotson; served from October 6, 1801)

District 6:

 

John Bird (resigned July 25, 1801)

John P. Van Ness (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Bird; served from October 6, 1801; seat declared forfeited January 17, 1803 because he had accepted and exercised the office of major of militia in the District of Columbia)

District 7:

David Thomas

District 8:

Killian K. Van Rensselaer

District 9:

Benjamin Walker

District 10:

Thomas Morris

 

North Carolina

 

Senators

Jesse Franklin

David Stone

Representatives

 

District 1:

James Holland 

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:

 

Charles Johnson (died July 23, 1802)

Thomas Wynns (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Charles Johnston; served from December 7, 1802)

District 9:

Willis Alston

District 10:

John Stanly

 

Ohio (admitted as a state November 29, 1802)

 

Senators

 

Vacant

 

Representatives

 

Vacant

 

Pennsylvania

 

Senators

 

James Ross

John Peter G. Muhlenberg (resigned June 30, 1801)

George Logan (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Peter G. Muhlenberg; served from July 13, 1801)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

William Jones 

District 2:

Michael Leib

District 3:

Joseph Hemphill

District 4*:

Isaac Van Horne

Robert Brown

District 5:

Joseph Hiester

District 6:

John A. Hanna

District 7:

Thomas Boude

District 8:

John Stewart

District 9:

Andrew Gregg

District 10:

Henry Woods

District 11:

John Smilie

District 12:

William Hoge

 

* Two-member district

 

Rhode Island

 

Senators

 

Theodore Foster

Ray Greene (resigned March 5, 1801)

Christopher Ellery (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Ray Greene; served from May 6, 1801)

 

Representatives At Large

 

John Brown 

Christopher G. Champlin

 

South Carolina

 

Senators

 

Charles Pinckney (resigned 1801 to become Minister to Spain)

John E. Colhoun (died October 26, 1802)

Thomas Sumter (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Charles Pinckney; served from December 15, 1801)

Pierce Butler (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John E. Colhoun; served from November 4, 1802)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Thomas Lowndes 

District 2:

John Rutledge, Jr.

District 3:

Benjamin Huger

District 4:

 

Thomas Sumter (resigned December 15, 1801 to become Senator)

Richard Winn (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Thomas Sumter; served from January 24, 1803)

District 5:

William Butler

District 6:

Thomas Moore

 

Tennessee

 

Senators

 

Joseph Anderson

William Cocke

 

Representative At Large

 

William Dickson

 

Vermont

 

Senators

 

Elijah Paine (resigned September 1, 1801)

Nathaniel Chipman

Stephen R. Bradley (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Elijah Paine; served from October 15, 1801)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Israel Smith 

District 2:

Lewis R. Morris

 

Virginia

 

Senators

 

Stevens T. Mason

Wilson C. Nicholas

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

John Smith 

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:

Thomas Claiborne

District 9:

William B. Giles

District 10:

Edwin Gray

District 11:

Thomas Newton, Jr.

District 12:

John Stratton

District 13:

John Clopton

District 14:

Samuel J. Cabell

District 15:

John Dawson

District 16:

Anthony New

District 17:

Richard Brent

District 18:

Philip R. Thompson

District 19:

John Taliaferro

 

Mississippi Territory

 

Delegate

 

Narsworthy Hunter (died March 11, 1802)

Thomas M. Greene (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Narsworthy Hunter; served from December 6, 1802)

 

Northwest Territory

 

Delegate

 

Paul Fearing