26th United States Congress - State Delegations

The Twenty-sixth United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, comprised of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, DC from March 4 1839 to March 3 1841, during the last two years of the administration of U.S. President Martin Van Buren.

The apportionment of seats in this House of Representatives was based on the Fifth Census of the United States in 1830. Both chambers had a Democratic majority.

This article supplements the main article with a list of the members by state delegation.

Main article: 26th United States Congress
See also: 26th United States Congress - political parties
See also: United States House elections, 1838

Dates of sessions

March 4 1839 - March 3 1841

  • First session: December 2 1839 - July 21 1840
  • Second session: December 7 1840 - March 3 1841 — a lame duck session

Previous congress: 25th Congress
Next congress: 27th Congress

Members

Senators were elected by the state legislatures every two years, with one-third beginning new six year terms with each Congress. Preceding the names in the list below are Senate class numbers, which indicate the cycle of their election. In this Congress, Class 1 meant their term began with this Congress, requiring reelection in 1844; Class 2 meant their term ended with this Congress, requiring reelection in 1840; and Class 3 meant their term began in the last Congress, requiring reelection in 1842.

The names of members of the House of Representatives elected statewide on the general ticket or otherwise at-large, are preceded by an "A/L," and the names of those elected from districts, whether plural or single member, are preceded by their district numbers.

Many of the congressional district numbers are linked to articles describing the district itself. Since the boundaries of the districts have changed often and substantially, the linked article may only describe the district as it exists today, and not as it was at the time of this Congress.

The list below is arranged by state, then by chamber. Senators are shown in order of seniority, House members in district order.

Alabama

Senate
  • 2: William R. D. King (1786-1853), Democratic
  • 3: Clement C. Clay (1789-1866), Democratic
House of Representatives (5 seats)

  • : Reuben Chapman (1799-1882), Democratic

  • : David Hubbard (1792-1874), Democratic

  • : George W. Crabb (1804-1846), Whig

  • : Dixon H. Lewis (1802-1848), Democratic

  • : James Dellet (1788-1848), Whig

Arkansas

Senate
  • 2: William S. Fulton (1795-1844), Democratic
  • 3: Ambrose H. Sevier (1801-1848), Democratic
House of Representatives (1 seat)

  • : Edward Cross (1798-1887), Democratic

Connecticut

Senate
  • 3: Perry Smith (1783-1852), Democratic
  • 1: Thaddeus Betts (1789-1840), Whig …died April 7 1840.
    Jabez W. Huntington (1788-1847), Whig …elected to fill vacancy May 4 1840.
House of Representatives (6 seats)

  • : Joseph Trumbull (1782-1861), Whig

  • : William L. Storrs (1795-1861), Whig …resigned in June 1840.

    William W. Boardman (1794-1871), Whig …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 7 1840.

  • : Thomas W. Williams (1789-1874), Whig

  • : Thomas B. Osborne (1798-1869), Whig

  • : Truman Smith (1791-1884), Whig

  • : John H. Brockway (1801-1870), Whig

Delaware

Senate
  • 1: Richard H. Bayard (1796-1868), Whig …resigned September 19 1839, elected to fill vacancy January 12 1841.
  • 2: Thomas Clayton (1777-1854), Whig
House of Representatives (1 seat)

  • : Thomas Robinson, Jr. (1800-1843), Democratic

Georgia

Senate
  • 3: Alfred Cuthbert (1785-1856), Democratic
  • 2: Wilson Lumpkin (1783-1870), Democratic
House of Representatives (9 seats)

  • : Julius C. Alford (1799-1863), Whig

  • : Edward J. Black (1806-1846), Whig

  • : Walter T. Colquitt (1799-1855), Whig …resigned July 21 1840.

    Hines Holt (1805-1865), Whig …elected to fill vacancy, seated February 1 1841.

  • : Mark A. Cooper (1800-1885), Whig

  • : William C. Dawson (1798-1856), Whig

  • : Richard W. Habersham (1786-1842), Whig

  • : Thomas Butler King (1800-1864), Whig

  • : Eugenius A. Nisbet (1803-1871), Whig

  • : Lott Warren (1797-1861), Whig

Illinois

Senate
  • 2: John M. Robinson (1794-1843), Democratic
  • 3: Richard M. Young (1798-1861), Democratic
House of Representatives (3 seats)

  • : John Reynolds (1788-1865), Democratic

  • : Zadok Casey (1796-1862), Democratic

  • : John T. Stuart (1807-1885), Whig

Indiana

Senate
  • 3: Oliver H. Smith (1794-1859), Whig
  • 1: Albert S. White (1803-1864), Whig
House of Representatives (7 seats)

  • : George H. Proffit (1807-1847), Whig

  • : John W. Davis (1799-1859), Democratic

  • : John Carr (1793-1845), Democratic

  • : Thomas Smith (1799-1876), Democratic

  • : James Rariden (1795-1856), Whig

  • : William W. Wick (1796-1868), Democratic

  • : Tilghman A. Howard (1797-1844), Democratic …resigned August 1 1840.

    Henry S. Lane (1811-1881), Whig …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 7 1840.

Kentucky

Senate
  • 3: Henry Clay (1777-1852), Whig
  • 2: John J. Crittenden (1786-1863), Whig
House of Representatives (13 seats)

  • : Linn Boyd (1800-1859), Democratic

  • : Philip Triplett (1799-1852), Whig

  • : Joseph R. Underwood (1791-1876), Whig

  • : Sherrod Williams (1804- ), Whig

  • : Simeon H. Anderson (1802-1840), Whig …died August 11 1840.

    John B. Thompson (1810-1874), Whig …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 7 1840.

  • : Willis Green ( - ), Whig

  • : John Pope (1770-1845), Whig

  • : William J. Graves (1805-1848), Whig

  • : John White (1802-1845), Whig

  • : Richard Hawes (1797-1877), Whig

  • : Landaff W. Andrews (1803-1887), Whig

  • : Garrett Davis (1801-1872), Whig

  • : William O. Butler (1791-1880), Democratic

Louisiana

Senate
  • 2: Robert C. Nicholas (1793-1857), Democratic
  • 3: Alexander Mouton (1804-1885), Democratic
House of Representatives (3 seats)

  • : Edward D. White (1795-1847), Whig

  • : Thomas W. Chinn (1791-1852), Whig

  • : Rice Garland (1795c-1861), Whig …resigned July 21 1840.

    John Moore (1788-1867), Whig …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 17 1840.

Maine

Senate
  • 2: John Ruggles (1789-1874), Democratic
  • 1: Reuel Williams (1783-1862), Democratic
House of Representatives (8 seats)

  • : Nathan Clifford (1803-1881), Democratic

  • : Albert Smith (1793-1867), Democratic

  • : Benjamin Randall (1789-1859), Whig

  • : George Evans (1797-1867), Whig

  • : Virgil D. Parris (1807-1874), Democratic

  • : Hugh J. Anderson (1801-1881), Democratic

  • : Joshua A. Lowell (1801-1874), Democratic

  • : Thomas Davee (1797-1841), Democratic

Maryland

Senate
  • 3: John S. Spence (1788-1840), Whig …died October 24 1840.
    John L. Kerr (1780-1844), Whig …elected to fill vacancy January 5 1841.
  • 1: William D. Merrick (1793-1857), Whig
House of Representatives (8 seats)

  • : John Dennis (1807-1859), Whig

  • : Philip F. Thomas (1810-1890), Democratic

  • : John T. H. Worthington (1788-1849), Democratic

  • : James Carroll (1791-1873), Democratic

  • : Solomon Hillen, Jr. (1810-1873), Democratic

  • : William Cost Johnson (1806-1860), Whig

  • : Francis Thomas (1799-1876), Democratic

  • : Daniel Jenifer (1791-1855), Whig

Massachusetts

Senate
  • 1: Daniel Webster (1782-1852), Whig …resigned February 22 1841.
    Rufus Choate (1799-1859), Whig …elected to fill vacancy February 23 1841.
  • 2: John Davis (1787-1854), Whig …resigned January 5 1841.
    Isaac C. Bates (1779-1845), Whig …elected to fill vacancy January 13 1841.
House of Representatives (12 seats)

  • : Abbott Lawrence (1792-1855), Whig …resigned September 18 1840.

    Robert C. Winthrop (1809-1894), Whig …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 7 1840.

  • : Leverett Saltonstall (1783-1845), Whig

  • : Caleb Cushing (1800-1879), Whig

  • : William Parmenter (1789-1866), Democratic

  • : Levi Lincoln, Jr. (1782-1868), Whig

  • : James C. Alvord (1808-1839), Whig …died September 27 1839, before Congress assembled.

    Osmyn Baker (1800-1875), Whig …elected to fill vacancy, seated January 14 1840.

  • : George N. Briggs (1796-1861), Whig

  • : William B. Calhoun (1796-1865), Whig

  • : William S. Hastings (1798-1842), Whig

  • : Henry Williams (1805-1887), Democratic

  • : John Reed, Jr. (1781-1860), Whig

  • : John Quincy Adams (1767-1848), Whig

Michigan

Senate
  • 2: John Norvell (1789-1850), Democratic
  • 1: Augustus S. Porter (1798-1872), Whig …elected to fill vacancy in class, January 20 1840.
House of Representatives (1 seat)

  • : Isaac E. Crary (1804-1854), Democratic

Mississippi

Senate
  • 2: Robert J. Walker (1801-1869), Democratic
  • 1: John Henderson (1797-1857), Whig
House of Representatives (2 seats)

  • : Albert G. Brown (1813-1880), Democratic

  • : Jacob Thompson (1810-1885), Democratic

Missouri

Senate
  • 1: Thomas H. Benton (1782-1858), Democratic
  • 3: Lewis F. Linn (1796-1843), Democratic
House of Representatives (2 seats)

  • : Albert G. Harrison (1800-1839), Democratic …died September 7 1839.

    John Jameson (1802-1857), Democratic …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 12 1839.

  • : John Miller (1781-1846), Democratic

New Hampshire

Senate
  • 2: Henry Hubbard (1784-1857), Democratic
  • 3: Franklin Pierce (1804-1869), Democratic
House of Representatives (5 seats)

  • : Charles G. Atherton (1804-1853), Democratic

  • : Edmund Burke (1809-1882), Democratic

  • : Ira A. Eastman (1809-1881), Democratic

  • : Tristram Shaw (1786-1843), Democratic

  • : Jared W. Williams (1796-1864), Democratic

New Jersey

Senate
  • 1: Samuel L. Southard (1787-1842), Whig
  • 2: Garret D. Wall (1783-1850), Democratic
House of Representatives (6 seats)

  • : William R. Cooper (1793-1856), Democratic …contested election, seated March 10 1840.

  • : Philemon Dickerson (1788-1862), Democratic …contested election, seated March 10 1840.

  • : Joseph Kille (1790-1865), Democratic …contested election, seated March 10 1840.

  • : Joseph F. Randolph (1803-1873), Whig

  • : Daniel B. Ryall (1798-1864), Democratic …contested election, seated March 10 1840.

  • : Peter D. Vroom (1791-1873), Democratic …contested election, seated March 10 1840.

New York

Senate
  • 3: Silas Wright, Jr. (1795-1847), Democratic
  • 1: Nathaniel P. Tallmadge (1795-1864), Whig
House of Representatives (40 seats)

  • : Thomas B. Jackson (1797-1881), Democratic

  • : James De la Montanya (1798-1849), Democratic

  • : Edward Curtis (1801-1856), Whig

  • : Moses H. Grinnell (1803-1877), Whig

  • : Josiah Ogden Hoffman (1793-1856), Whig

  • : James Monroe (1799-1870), Whig

  • : Gouverneur Kemble (1786-1875), Democratic

  • : Charles Johnston (1793-1845), Whig

  • : Nathaniel Jones (1788-1866), Democratic

  • : Rufus Palen (1807-1844), Whig

  • : John Ely (1774-1849), Democratic

  • : Aaron Vanderpoel (1799-1870), Democratic

  • : Hiram P. Hunt (1796-1865), Whig

  • : Daniel D. Barnard (1797-1861), Whig

  • : Anson Brown (1800-1840), Whig …died June 14 1840.

    Nicholas B. Doe (1786-1856), Whig …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 7 1840.

  • : David A. Russell (1780-1861), Whig

  • : Augustus C. Hand (1803-1878), Democratic

  • : John Fine (1794-1867), Democratic

  • : Peter J. Wagner (1795-1884), Whig

  • : Andrew W. Doig (1799-1875), Democratic

  • : David P. Brewster (1801-1876), Democratic

  • : John G. Floyd (1806-1881), Democratic

  • : Thomas C. Chittenden (1788-1866), Whig

  • : John H. Prentiss (1784-1861), Democratic

  • : Judson Allen (1797-1880), Democratic

  • : John C. Clark (1793-1852), Whig

  • : Amasa Dana (1792-1867), Democratic

  • : Stephen B. Leonard (1793-1876), Democratic

  • : Nehemiah H. Earll (1787-1872), Democratic

  • : Edward Rogers (1787-1857), Democratic

  • : Christopher Morgan (1808-1877), Whig

  • : Theron R. Strong (1802-1873), Democratic

  • : Francis Granger (1792-1868), Whig

  • : Meredith Mallory ( - ), Democratic

  • : Thomas Kempshall (1796c-1865), Whig

  • : Seth M. Gates (1800-1877), Whig

  • : Luther C. Peck (1800-1876), Whig

  • : Richard P. Marvin (1803-1892), Whig

  • : Millard Fillmore (1800-1874), Whig

  • : Charles F. Mitchell (1808c- ), Whig

North Carolina

Senate
  • 2: Bedford Brown (1795-1870), Democratic …resigned November 16 1840.
    Willie P. Mangum (1792-1861), Whig …elected to fill vacancy November 25 1840.
  • 3: Robert Strange (1796-1854), Democratic …resigned November 16 1840.
    William A. Graham (1804-1875), Whig …elected to fill vacancy November 25 1840.
House of Representatives (13 seats)

  • : Kenneth Rayner (1808-1884), Whig

  • : Jesse A. Bynum (1797-1868), Democratic

  • : Edward Stanly (1810-1872), Whig

  • : Charles B. Shepard (1808-1843), Democratic

  • : James I. McKay (1793-1853), Democratic

  • : Micajah T. Hawkins (1790-1858), Democratic

  • : Edmund Deberry (1787-1859), Whig

  • : William Montgomery (1789-1844), Democratic

  • : John Hill (1797-1861), Democratic

  • : Charles Fisher (1789-1849), Democratic

  • : Henry W. Connor (1793-1866), Democratic

  • : James Graham (1793-1851), Whig

  • : Lewis Williams (1782-1842), Whig

Ohio

Senate
  • 3: William Allen (1803-1879), Democratic
  • 1: Benjamin Tappan (1773-1857), Democratic
House of Representatives (19 seats)

  • : Alexander Duncan (1788-1853), Democratic

  • : John B. Weller (1812-1875), Democratic

  • : Patrick G. Goode (1798-1862), Whig

  • : Thomas Corwin (1794-1865), Whig …resigned May 30 1840.

    Jeremiah Morrow (1771-1852), Whig …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 7 1840.

  • : William Doan (1792-1847), Democratic

  • : Calvary Morris (1798-1871), Whig

  • : William K. Bond (1792-1864), Whig

  • : Joseph Ridgway (1783-1861), Whig

  • : William Medill (1802-1865), Democratic

  • : Samson Mason (1793-1869), Whig

  • : Isaac Parrish (1804-1860), Democratic

  • : Jonathan Taylor (1796-1848), Democratic

  • : Daniel P. Leadbetter (1797-1870), Democratic

  • : George Sweeny (1796-1877), Democratic

  • : John W. Allen (1802-1887), Whig

  • : Joshua R. Giddings (1795-1864), Whig

  • : John Hastings (1778-1854), Democratic

  • : David A. Starkweather (1802-1876), Democratic

  • : Henry Swearingen (1792c-1849), Democratic

Pennsylvania

Senate
  • 3: James Buchanan (1791-1868), Democratic
  • 1: Daniel Sturgeon (1789-1878), Democratic …elected to fill vacancy in class, January 14 1840.
House of Representatives (28 seats)

  • : Lemuel Paynter (1788-1863), Democratic

  • : John Sergeant (1779-1852), Whig

  • : George W. Toland (1796-1869), Whig

  • : Charles Naylor (1806-1872), Whig

  • : Edward Davies (1779-1853), Anti-Masonic

  • : John Edwards (1786-1843), Anti-Masonic

  • : Francis James (1799-1886), Anti-Masonic

  • : Joseph Fornance (1804-1852), Democratic

  • : John Davis (1788-1878), Democratic

  • : David D. Wagener (1792-1860), Democratic

  • : Peter Newhard (1783-1860), Democratic

  • : George M. Keim (1805-1861), Democratic

  • : William Simonton (1788-1846), Whig

  • : James Gerry (1796-1873), Democratic

  • : James Cooper (1810-1863), Whig

  • : William S. Ramsey (1810-1840), Democratic …died October 17 1840.

    Charles McClure (1804-1846), Democratic …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 7 1840.

  • : William W. Potter (1792-1839), Democratic …died October 28 1839, before Congress assembled.

    George McCulloch (1792-1861), Democratic …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 2 1839.

  • : David Petrikin (1788-1847), Democratic

  • : Robert H. Hammond (1791-1847), Democratic

  • : Samuel W. Morris (1786-1847), Democratic

  • : Charles Ogle (1798-1841), Anti-Masonic

  • : Albert G. Marchand (1811-1848), Democratic

  • : Enos Hook (1804-1841), Democratic

  • : Isaac Leet (1801-1844), Democratic

  • : Richard Biddle (1796-1847), Anti-Masonic …resigned in 1840.

    Henry M. Brackenridge (1786-1871), Whig …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 10 1840.

  • : William Beatty (1787-1851), Democratic

  • : Thomas Henry (1779-1849), Anti-Masonic

  • : John Galbraith (1794-1860), Democratic

Rhode Island

Senate
  • 2: Nehemiah R. Knight (1780-1854), Whig
  • 1: Nathan F. Dixon (1774-1842), Whig
House of Representatives (2 seats)

  • : Robert B. Cranston (1791-1873), Whig

  • : Joseph L. Tillinghast (1791-1844), Whig

South Carolina

Senate
  • 2: John C. Calhoun (1782-1850), Democratic
  • 3: William C. Preston (1794-1860), Whig
House of Representatives (9 seats)

  • : Isaac E. Holmes (1796-1867), Democratic

  • : R. Barnwell Rhett (1800-1876), Democratic

  • : John Campbell ( -1845), Democratic

  • : Sampson H. Butler (1803-1848), Democratic

  • : Francis W. Pickens (1805-1869), Democratic

  • : Waddy Thompson, Jr. (1798-1868), Whig

  • : James Rogers (1795-1873), Democratic

  • : Thomas D. Sumter (1809-1874), Democratic

  • : John K. Griffin (1789-1841), Democratic

Tennessee

Senate
  • 2: Hugh Lawson White (1773-1840), Whig …resigned January 13 1840.
    Alexander O. Anderson (1794-1869), Democratic …elected to fill vacancy January 27 1840.
  • 1: Felix Grundy (1777-1840), Democratic …elected to fill vacancy in class, December 14 1839, died December 19 1840.
    Alfred O. P. Nicholson (1808-1876), Democratic …appointed to fill vacancy December 25 1840.
House of Representatives (13 seats)

  • : William B. Carter (1792-1848), Whig

  • : Abraham McClellan (1789-1866), Democratic

  • : Joseph L. Williams (1810-1865), Whig

  • : Julius W. Blackwell (1797c- ), Democratic

  • : Hopkins L. Turney (1797-1857), Democratic

  • : William B. Campbell (1807-1867), Whig

  • : John Bell (1797-1869), Whig

  • : Meredith P. Gentry (1809-1866), Whig

  • : Harvey M. Watterson (1811-1891), Democratic

  • : Aaron V. Brown (1795-1859), Democratic

  • : Cave Johnson (1793-1866), Democratic

  • : John W. Crockett (1807-1852), Whig

  • : Christopher H. Williams (1798-1857), Whig

Vermont

Senate
  • 3: Samuel Prentiss (1782-1857), Whig
  • 1: Samuel S. Phelps (1793-1855), Whig
House of Representatives (5 seats)

  • : Hiland Hall (1795-1885), Whig

  • : William Slade (1786-1859), Whig

  • : Horace Everett (1779-1851), Whig

  • : John Smith (1789-1858), Democratic

  • : Isaac Fletcher (1784-1842), Democratic

Virginia

Senate
  • 2: William H. Roane (1787-1845), Democratic
  • 1: William C. Rives (1793-1868), Whig …elected to fill vacancy in class, January 18 1841.
House of Representatives (21 seats)

  • : Joel Holleman (1799-1844), Democratic …resigned in 1840.

    Francis Mallory (1807-1860), Whig …elected to fill vacancy, seated January 7 1841.

  • : Francis E. Rives (1792-1861), Democratic

  • : John W. Jones (1791-1848), Democratic

  • : George C. Dromgoole (1797-1847), Democratic

  • : John Hill (1800-1880), Whig

  • : Walter Coles (1790-1857), Democratic

  • : William L. Goggin (1807-1870), Whig

  • : Henry A. Wise (1806-1876), Whig

  • : Robert M. T. Hunter (1809-1887), Whig

  • : John Taliaferro (1768-1852), Whig

  • : John M. Botts (1802-1869), Whig

  • : James Garland (1791-1885), (Conservative)

  • : Linn Banks (1784-1842), Democratic

  • : Charles F. Mercer (1778-1858), Whig …resigned December 26 1839.

    William M. McCarty (1789c-1863), Whig …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 26 1839.

  • : William Lucas (1800-1877), Democratic

  • : Green B. Samuels (1806-1859), Democratic

  • : Robert Craig (1792-1852), Democratic

  • : George W. Hopkins (1804-1861), (Conservative)

  • : Andrew Beirne (1771-1845), Democratic

  • : Joseph Johnson (1785-1877), Democratic

  • : Lewis Steenrod (1810-1862), Democratic

Delegates

Florida Territory

  • : Charles Downing ( -1845),

Iowa Territory

  • : William W. Chapman (1808-1892), Democratic …served until October 27 1840.

  • : Augustus C. Dodge (1812-1883), Democratic …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 8 1840.

Wisconsin Territory

  • : James D. Doty (1799-1865), Democratic