Membership of the 8th Congress of the United States

 

March 4, 1803 to March 3, 1805

 

First Session:  October 17, 1803 to March 27, 1804

Second Session:  November 5, 1804 to March 3, 1805

 

Vice President of the United States:

Aaron Burr (New York)

President Pro Tempore of the Senate:

John Brown (Kentucky)
Jesse Franklin (North Carolina), from March 10, 1804
Joseph Anderson (Tennessee), from January 15, 1805

Secretary of the Senate:

Samuel A. Otis (Massachusetts)

Sergeant At Arms of the Senate:

James Mathers (New York)

   

Speaker of the House of Representatives:

Nathaniel Macon (North Carolina)

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

 

James Hillhouse

Uriah Tracy

 

Representatives At Large

 

Roger Griswold

Samuel W. Dana

John Davenport

John Cotton Smith

Benjamin Tallmadge

Calvin Goddard

Simeon Baldwin

 

Delaware

 

Senators

 

William H. Wells (resigned November 6, 1804)

James Asheton Bayard (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William H. Wells; served from November 13, 1804)

Samuel White

 

Representative At Large

 

Caesar A. Rodney

 

Georgia

 

Senators

 

Abraham Baldwin

James Jackson

 

Representatives At Large

 

David Meriwether

Peter Early

Samuel Hammond (resigned February 2, 1805 to become Civil and Military Governor of the upper Louisiana Territory)

Joseph Bryan

 

Kentucky

 

Senators

 

John Brown

John Breckinridge

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Matthew Lyon

District 2:

John Boyle

District 3:

Matthew Walton

District 4:

Thomas Sandford

District 5:

John Fowler

District 6:

George M. Bedinger

 

Maryland

 

Senators

 

Robert Wright

Samuel Smith

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

John Campbell

District 2:

Walter Bowie

District 3:

Thomas Plater

District 4:

Daniel Hiester (died March 7, 1804)

Roger Nelson (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Daniel Hiester; served from November 6, 1804)

District 5*:

William McCreery

Nicholas R. Moore

District 6:

John Archer

District 7:

Joseph H. Nicholson

District 8:

John Dennis

 

* Two-member district

 

 

Massachusetts

 

Senators

 

Timothy Pickering (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Dwight Foster; served from March 4, 1803)

John Quincy Adams

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

William Eustis

District 2:

Jacob Crowninshield

District 3:

Manasseh Cutler

District 4:

Joseph B. Varnum

District 5:

Thomas Dwight

District 6:

Samuel Taggart

District 7:

Nathum Mitchell

District 8:

Lemuel Williams

District 9:

Phanuel Bishop

District 10:

Seth Hastings

District 11:

William Stedman

District 12:

 

Thomson Skinner (resigned August 10, 1804)

Simon Larned (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Thomson Skinner; served from November 5, 1804)

District 13:

Ebenezer Seaver

District 14:

Richard Cutts

District 15:

Peleg Wadsworth

District 16:

Samuel Thatcher

District 17:

Phineas Bruce (prevented by illness from qualifying)

 

New Hampshire

 

Senators

 

Simeon Olcott

William Plumer

 

Representatives At Large

 

Silas Betton

Samuel Hunt

Clifton Clagett

Samuel Tenney

David Hough

 

New Jersey

 

Senators

 

Jonathan Dayton

John Condit

 

Representatives At Large

 

Adam Boyd

Ebenezer Elmer

William Helms

James Mott

James Sloan

Henry Southard

 

New York

 

Senators

 

De Witt Clinton (resigned November 4, 1803 to become Mayor of New York City)

Theodorus Bailey (resigned January 16, 1804 to accept the position of Postmaster of New York City)

John Armstrong, Jr. (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Theodorus Bailey; served from February 25, 1804; resigned June 30, 1804 to become Minister to France)

John Smith (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of De Witt Clinton; served from February 23, 1804)

Samuel L. Mitchill (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Armstrong, Jr.; served from November 23, 1804)

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

 

John Smith (resigned February 23, 1804 to become Senator)

Samuel Riker (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Smith; served from November 5, 1804)

District 2:

Johsua Sands

District 3:

 

Samuel L. Mitchill (resigned November 22, 1804 to become Senator)

George Clinton (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Samuel L. Mitchill; served from February 14, 1805)

District 4:

Philip Van Cortlandt

District 5:

Andrew McCord

District 6:

 

Isaac Bloom (died April 26, 1803)

Daniel C. Verplanck (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Isaac Bloom; served from October 17, 1803)

District 7:

Josiah Hasbrouck (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Representative-elect John Cantine; served from April 28, 1803)

District 8:

Henry W. Livingston

District 9:

Killian K. Van Rensselaer

District 10:

George Tibbits

District 11:

Beriah Palmer

District 12:

David Thomas

District 13:

Thomas Sammons

District 14:

Erastus Root

District 15:

Gaylord Griswold

District 16:

John Patterson

District 17:

Oliver Phelps

 

North Carolina

 

Senators

 

Jesse Franklin

David Stone

 

Representatives

 

District 1:

Thomas Wynns 

District 2:

Willis Alston

District 3:

William Kennedy

District 4:

William Blackledge

District 5:

James Gillespie (died January 11, 1805)

District 6:

Nathaniel Macon

District 7:

Samuel D. Purviance

District 8:

Richard Stanford

District 9:

Marmaduke Williams

District 10:

Nathaniel Alexander

District 11:

James Holland

District 12:

Joseph Winston

 

Ohio

 

Senators

 

John Smith (served from April 1, 1803)

Thomas Worthington (served from April 1, 1803)

 

Representative At Large

 

Jeremiah Morrow (served from October 17, 1803)

 

Pennsylvania

 

Senators

 

George Logan

Samuel Maclay

 

Representatives

 

District 1*:

 

 

Joseph Clay

Michael Leib

Jacob Richards

District 2:

 

 

Frederick Conrad

Robert Brown

Isaac Van Horne

District 3:

 

 

John Whitehill

Isaac Anderson

Joseph Hiester

District 4#:

 

David Bard

John A. Hanna

District 5:

Andrew Gregg

District 6:

John Stewart

District 7:

John Rea

District 8:

William Findley

District 9:

John Smilie

District 10:

William Hoge (resigned October 15, 1804)

John Hoge (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of his brother, William Hoge; served from November 2, 1804)

District 11:

John B. C. Lucas

 

* Three-member district

† Three-member district

‡ Three-member district

# Two-member district

 

Rhode Island

 

Senators

 

Christopher Ellery

Samuel J. Potter (died October 14, 1804)

Benjamin Howland (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Samuel Potter; served from October 29, 1804)

 

Representatives At Large

 

Nehemiah R. Knight 
Joseph Stanton IV
 

South Carolina

 

Senators

 

Thomas Sumter

Pierce Butler (resigned November 21, 1804)

John Galliard (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Pierce Butler; served from December 6, 1804)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Thomas Lowndes 
District 2: William Butler 
District 3: Benjamin Huger
District 4: Wade Hampton
District 5: Richard Winn
District 6: Levi Casey
District 7: Thomas Moore
District 8: John B. Earle
 

Tennessee

 

Senators

 

Joseph Anderson

William Cocke

 

Representatives At Large

 

William Dickson
George W. Campbell 
John Rhea
 

Vermont

 

Senators

 

Stephen R. Bradley

Israel Smith

 

Representatives

 

District 1: Gideon Olin 
District 2: James Elliott
District 3: William Chamberlain
District 4: Martin Chittenden
 

Virginia

 

Senators

 

Stevens T. Mason (died May 10, 1803)

Wilson C. Nicholas (resigned May 22, 1804)

John Taylor of Caroline (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Stevens T. Mason; served from June 4, 1803 to December 7, 1803 when Abraham Venable was elected)

Abraham Venable (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Stevens T. Mason; served from December 7, 1803 to June 7, 1804, when he resigned to become president of the first national bank organized in Virginia)

William B. Giles (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Abraham Venable; while holding the office of Senator-designate was elected on December 4, 1804, to fill the vacancy in the term beginning March 4, 1799, caused by the resignation of Wilson C. Nicholas; served from August 11, 1804)

Andrew Moore (appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Wilson C. Nicholas; while holding the office of Senator-designate was elected on December 4, 1804 to fill the vacancy in the term beginning March 4, 1803 caused by the resignation of Abraham Venable; served successively in the two classes from August 11, 1804)

 

Representatives

 

District 1: John G. Jackson 
District 2: James Stephenson
District 3: John Smith
District 4: David Holmes
District 5: Thomas Lewis (election contested by Andrew Moore; succeeded March 5, 1804 )
Andrew Moore (successfully contested the election of Thomas Lewis; served from March 5, 1804; resigned August 11, 1804 to become Senator)
Alexander Wilson (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Andrew Moore; served from December 4, 1804)
District 6: Abram Trigg
District 7: Joseph Lewis, Jr.
District 8: Walter Jones
District 9: Philip R. Thompson
District 10: John Dawson
District 11: Anthony New
District 12: Thomas Griffin
District 13: John Johns Trigg (died May 17, 1804)
Christopher H. Clark (elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John Trigg; served from November 5, 1804)
District 14: Matthew Clay
District 15: John Randolph of Roanoke
District 16: John W. Eppes
District 17: Thomas Claiborne
District 18: Peterson Goodwyn
District 19: Edwin Gray
District 20: Thomas Newton, Jr.
District 21: Thomas M. Randolph
District 22: John Clopton
 

Mississippi Territory

 

Delegate

 

William Lattimore