27th United States Congress - State Delegations

The Twenty-seventh 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 1841 to March 3 1843, during the administration of U.S. President William Henry Harrison the first two years of the administration of his successor, U.S. President John Tyler.

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 Whig majority.

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

Main article: 27th United States Congress
See also: 27th United States Congress - political parties
See also: United States House elections, 1840

Dates of sessions

March 4 1841 - March 3 1843

  • Special session of the Senate: March 4 1841 – March 15 1841
  • First session: May 31 1841 - September 13 1841
  • Second session: December 6 1841 - August 31 1842
  • Third session: December 5 1842 - March 3 1843 — a lame duck session

Previous congress: 26th Congress
Next congress: 28th 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 in the last Congress, requiring reelection in 1844; Class 2 meant their term began with this Congress, requiring reelection in 1846; and Class 3 meant their term ended with this 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 …resigned November 15 1841.
    Arthur P. Bagby (1794-1858), Democratic …elected to fill vacancy November 24 1841.
House of Representatives (5 seats)

  • : Reuben Chapman (1799-1882), Democratic

  • : George S. Houston (1811-1879), Democratic

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

  • : William W. Payne (1807-1874), Democratic

  • : Benjamin G. Shields (1808-1850), Democratic

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: Jabez W. Huntington (1788-1847), Whig
House of Representatives (6 seats)

  • : Joseph Trumbull (1782-1861), Whig

  • : William W. Boardman (1794-1871), Whig

  • : 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
  • 2: Thomas Clayton (1777-1854), Whig
House of Representatives (1 seat)

  • : George B. Rodney (1803-1883), Whig

Georgia

Senate
  • 3: Alfred Cuthbert (1785-1856), Democratic
  • 2: John Macpherson Berrien (1781-1856), Whig
House of Representatives (9 seats)

  • : Julius C. Alford (1799-1863), Whig …resigned in 1841.

    Edward J. Black (1806-1846), Democratic …elected to fill vacancy, seated March 2 1842.

  • : William C. Dawson (1798-1856), Whig …resigned November 13 1841.

    Walter T. Colquitt (1799-1855), Democratic …elected to fill vacancy, seated February 1 1842.

  • : Thomas F. Foster (1790-1848), Whig

  • : Roger L. Gamble (1787-1847), Whig

  • : Richard W. Habersham (1786-1842), Whig …died December 2 1842.

    George W. Crawford (1798-1872), Whig …elected to fill vacancy, seated February 1 1843.

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

  • : James A. Meriwether (1806-1852), Whig

  • : Eugenius A. Nisbet (1803-1871), Whig …resigned in 1841.

    Mark A. Cooper (1800-1885), Democratic …elected to fill vacancy, seated February 1 1842.

  • : Lott Warren (1797-1861), Whig

Illinois

Senate
  • 3: Richard M. Young (1798-1861), Democratic
  • 2: Samuel McRoberts (1799-1843), Democratic
House of Representatives (3 seats)

  • : John Reynolds (1788-1865), Democratic

  • : Zadok Casey (1796-1862), Independent 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

  • : Richard W. Thompson (1809-1900), Whig

  • : Joseph L. White ( -1861), Whig

  • : James H. Cravens (1802-1876), Whig

  • : Andrew Kennedy (1810-1847), Democratic

  • : David Wallace (1799-1859), Whig

  • : Henry S. Lane (1811-1881), Whig

Kentucky

Senate
  • 3: Henry Clay (1777-1852), Whig …resigned March 31 1842.
    John J. Crittenden (1786-1863), Whig …elected to fill vacancy March 31 1842.
  • 2: James T. Morehead (1797-1854), Whig
House of Representatives (13 seats)

  • : Linn Boyd (1800-1859), Democratic

  • : Philip Triplett (1799-1852), Whig

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

  • : Bryan Y. Owsley (1798-1849), Whig

  • : John B. Thompson (1810-1874), Whig

  • : Willis Green ( - ), Whig

  • : John Pope (1770-1845), Whig

  • : James C. Sprigg (1802-1852), Whig

  • : John White (1802-1845), Whig

  • : Thomas F. Marshall (1801-1864), Whig

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

  • : Garrett Davis (1801-1872), Whig

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

Louisiana

Senate
  • 3: Alexander Mouton (1804-1885), Democratic …resigned March 1 1842.
    Charles M. Conrad (1804-1878), Whig …elected to fill vacancy April 14 1842.
  • 2: Alexander Barrow (1801-1846), Whig
House of Representatives (3 seats)

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

  • : John B. Dawson (1798-1845), Democratic

  • : John Moore (1788-1867), Whig

Maine

Senate
  • 1: Reuel Williams (1783-1862), Democratic …resigned February 15 1843.
    John Fairfield Democratic …elected to fill vacancy, never served in this Congress
  • 2: George Evans (1797-1867), Whig
House of Representatives (8 seats)

  • : Nathan Clifford (1803-1881), Democratic

  • : William Pitt Fessenden (1806-1869), Whig

  • : Benjamin Randall (1789-1859), Whig

  • : George Evans (1797-1867), Whig …resigned before Congress assembled.

    David Bronson (1800-1863), Whig …elected to fill vacancy from preceding Congress, seated May 31 1841.

  • : Nathaniel S. Littlefield (1804-1882), Democratic

  • : Alfred Marshall (1797c-1868), Democratic

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

  • : Elisha H. Allen (1804-1883), Whig

Maryland

Senate
  • 1: William D. Merrick (1793-1857), Whig
  • 3: John L. Kerr (1780-1844), Whig
House of Representatives (8 seats)

  • : Isaac D. Jones (1806-1893), Whig

  • : James A. Pearce (1805-1862), Whig

  • : James W. Williams (1792-1842), Democratic …died December 2 1842.

    Charles S. Sewall (1779-1848), Democratic …elected to fill vacancy, seated January 7 1843.

  • : John P. Kennedy (1795-1870), Whig

  • : Alexander Randall (1803-1881), Whig

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

  • : John T. Mason (1815-1873), Democratic

  • : Augustus R. Sollers (1814-1862), Whig

Massachusetts

Senate
  • 2: Isaac C. Bates (1779-1845), Whig
  • 1: Rufus Choate (1799-1859), Whig
House of Representatives (12 seats)

  • : Robert C. Winthrop (1809-1894), Whig …resigned May 25 1842, elected to fill vacancy, seated December 5 1842.

    Nathan Appleton (1779-1861), Whig …elected to fill vacancy, seated June 9 1842, resigned September 28 1842.

  • : Leverett Saltonstall (1783-1845), Whig

  • : Caleb Cushing (1800-1879), Whig

  • : William Parmenter (1789-1866), Democratic

  • : Levi Lincoln, Jr. (1782-1868), Whig …resigned March 16 1841, before Congress assembled.

    Charles Hudson (1795-1881), Whig …elected to fill vacancy, seated May 3 1841.

  • : Osmyn Baker (1800-1875), Whig

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

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

  • : William S. Hastings (1798-1842), Whig …died June 17 1842.

  • : Nathaniel B. Borden (1801-1865), Whig

  • : Barker Burnell (1798-1843), Whig

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

Michigan

Senate
  • 1: Augustus S. Porter (1798-1872), Whig
  • 2: William Woodbridge (1780-1861), Whig
House of Representatives (1 seat)

  • : Jacob M. Howard (1805-1871), Whig

Mississippi

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

  • : William M. Gwin (1805-1885), 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)

  • : John C. Edwards (1804-1888), Democratic

  • : John Miller (1781-1846), Democratic

New Hampshire

Senate
  • 3: Franklin Pierce (1804-1869), Democratic …resigned February 28 1842.
    Leonard Wilcox (1799-1850), Democratic …appointed to fill vacancy March 1 1842, subsequently elected.
  • 2: Levi Woodbury (1789-1851), Democratic
House of Representatives (5 seats)

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

  • : Edmund Burke (1809-1882), Democratic

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

  • : John R. Reding (1805-1892), Democratic

  • : Tristram Shaw (1786-1843), Democratic

New Jersey

Senate
  • 1: Samuel L. Southard (1787-1842), Whig …died June 26 1842.
    William L. Dayton (1807-1864), Whig …appointed to fill vacancy July 2 1842, subsequently elected.
  • 2: Jacob W. Miller (1800-1862), Whig
House of Representatives (6 seats)

  • : John B. Aycrigg (1798-1856), Whig

  • : William Halstead (1794-1878), Whig

  • : John P. B. Maxwell (1804-1845), Whig

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

  • : Charles C. Stratton (1796-1859), Whig

  • : Thomas Jones Yorke (1801-1882), Whig

New York

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

  • : Charles A. Floyd (1791-1873), Democratic

  • : Joseph Egbert (1807-1888), Democratic

  • : Charles G. Ferris (1796c-1848), Democratic

  • : John McKeon (1808-1883), Democratic

  • : James I. Roosevelt (1795-1875), Democratic

  • : Fernando Wood (1812-1881), Democratic

  • : Aaron Ward (1790-1867), Democratic

  • : Richard D. Davis (1799-1871), Democratic

  • : James G. Clinton (1804-1849), Democratic

  • : John Van Buren (1799-1855), Democratic

  • : Jacob Houck, Jr. (1801-1857), Democratic

  • : Robert McClellan (1806-1860), Democratic

  • : Hiram P. Hunt (1796-1865), Whig

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

  • : Archibald L. Linn (1802-1857), Whig

  • : Bernard Blair (1801-1880), Whig

  • : Thomas A. Tomlinson (1802-1872), Whig

  • : Henry B. Van Rensselaer (1810-1864), Whig

  • : John Sanford (1803-1857), Democratic

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

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

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

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

  • : Samuel S. Bowne (1800-1865), Democratic

  • : Samuel Gordon (1802-1873), Democratic

  • : John C. Clark (1793-1852), Whig

  • : Samuel Partridge (1790-1883), Democratic

  • : Lewis Riggs (1789-1870), Democratic

  • : Victory Birdseye (1782-1853), Whig

  • : A. Lawrence Foster ( - ), Whig

  • : Christopher Morgan (1808-1877), Whig

  • : John Maynard ( -1850), Whig

  • : Francis Granger (1792-1868), Whig …resigned March 5 1841, elected to fill vacancy, seated December 7 1841.

    John Greig (1779-1858), Whig …elected to fill vacancy, seated May 31 1841, resigned September 25 1841.

  • : William M. Oliver (1792-1863), Democratic

  • : Timothy Childs (1785-1847), Whig

  • : Seth M. Gates (1800-1877), Whig

  • : John Young (1802-1852), Whig

  • : Staley N. Clarke (1794-1860), Whig

  • : Millard Fillmore (1800-1874), Whig

  • : Alfred Babcock (1805-1871), Whig

North Carolina

Senate
  • 2: Willie P. Mangum (1792-1861), Whig
  • 3: William A. Graham (1804-1875), Whig
House of Representatives (13 seats)

  • : Kenneth Rayner (1808-1884), Whig

  • : John R. J. Daniel (1802-1868), Democratic

  • : Edward Stanly (1810-1872), Whig

  • : William H. Washington (1813-1860), Whig

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

  • : Archibald H. Arrington (1809-1872), Democratic

  • : Edmund Deberry (1787-1859), Whig

  • : Romulus M. Saunders (1791-1867), Democratic

  • : Augustine H. Shepperd (1792-1864), Whig

  • : Abraham Rencher (1798-1883), Whig

  • : Greene W. Caldwell (1806-1864), Democratic

  • : James Graham (1793-1851), Whig

  • : Lewis Williams (1782-1842), Whig …died February 23 1842.

    Anderson Mitchell (1800-1876), Whig …elected to fill vacancy, seated April 27 1842.

Ohio

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

  • : Nathanael G. Pendleton (1793-1861), Whig

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

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

  • : Jeremiah Morrow (1771-1852), Whig

  • : William Doan (1792-1847), Democratic

  • : Calvary Morris (1798-1871), Whig

  • : William Russell (1782-1845), Whig

  • : Joseph Ridgway (1783-1861), Whig

  • : William Medill (1802-1865), Democratic

  • : Samson Mason (1793-1869), Whig

  • : Benjamin S. Cowen (1793-1860), Whig

  • : Joshua Mathiot (1800-1849), Whig

  • : James Mathews (1805-1887), Democratic

  • : George Sweeny (1796-1877), Democratic

  • : Sherlock J. Andrews (1801-1880), Whig

  • : Joshua R. Giddings (1795-1864), Whig …resigned March 22 1842, elected to fill vacancy, seated December 5 1842.

  • : John Hastings (1778-1854), Democratic

  • : Ezra Dean (1795-1872), Democratic

  • : Samuel Stokely (1796-1861), Whig

Pennsylvania

Senate
  • 3: James Buchanan (1791-1868), Democratic
  • 1: Daniel Sturgeon (1789-1878), Democratic
House of Representatives (28 seats)

  • : Charles Brown (1797-1883), Democratic

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

  • : John Sergeant (1779-1852), Whig …resigned September 15 1841.

    Joseph R. Ingersoll (1786-1868), Whig …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 9 1841.

  • : Charles J. Ingersoll (1782-1862), Democratic

  • : Jeremiah Brown (1785-1858), Whig

  • : John Edwards (1786-1843), Whig

  • : Francis James (1799-1886), Whig

  • : Joseph Fornance (1804-1852), Democratic

  • : Robert Ramsey (1780-1849), Whig

  • : John Westbrook (1789-1852), 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.

    Amos Gustine (1789-1844), Democratic …elected to fill vacancy from preceding Congress, seated May 31 1841.

  • : James Irvin (1800-1862), Whig

  • : Benjamin A. Bidlack (1804-1849), Democratic

  • : John Snyder (1793-1850), Democratic

  • : Davis Dimock, Jr. (1801-1842), Democratic …died January 13 1842.

    Almon H. Read (1790-1844), Democratic …elected to fill vacancy, seated March 18 1842.

  • : Charles Ogle (1798-1841), Whig …died May 10 1841, before Congress assembled.

    Henry Black (1783-1841), Whig …elected to fill vacancy, seated June 28 1841, died November 28 1841.
    James M. Russell (1786-1870), Whig …elected to fill vacancy, seated January 3 1842.

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

  • : Enos Hook (1804-1841), Democratic …resigned April 18 1841.

    Henry W. Beeson (1791-1863), Democratic …elected to fill vacancy, seated May 31 1841.

  • : Joseph Lawrence (1786-1842), Whig …died April 17 1842.

    Thomas M. T. McKennan (1794-1852), Whig …elected to fill vacancy, seated May 30 1842.

  • : William W. Irwin (1803-1856), Whig

  • : William Jack (1788-1852), Democratic

  • : Thomas Henry (1779-1849), Whig

  • : Arnold Plumer (1801-1869), Democratic

Rhode Island

Senate
  • 1: Nathan F. Dixon (1774-1842), Whig …died January 29 1842.
    William Sprague (1799-1856), Whig …elected to fill vacancy February 5 1842.
  • 2: James F. Simmons (1795-1864), 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 …resigned March 3 1843.
  • 3: William C. Preston (1794-1860), Whig …resigned November 29 1842.
    George McDuffie (1790-1851), Democratic …elected to fill vacancy December 2 1842.
House of Representatives (9 seats)

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

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

  • : John Campbell (1795-1845), Democratic

  • : Sampson H. Butler (1803-1848), Democratic …resigned September 27 1842.

    Samuel W. Trotti (1810-1856), Democratic …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 17 1842.

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

  • : William Butler (1790-1850), Whig

  • : James Rogers (1795-1873), Democratic

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

  • : Patrick C. Caldwell (1801-1855), Democratic

Tennessee

Senate
  • 1: Alfred O. P. Nicholson (1808-1876), Democratic …served until February 7 1842.
  • 2: vacant …vacancy in this class throughout the Congress.
House of Representatives (13 seats)

  • : Thomas D. Arnold (1798-1870), Whig

  • : Abraham McClellan (1789-1866), Democratic

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

  • : Thomas J. Campbell (1786-1850), Whig

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

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

  • : Robert L. Caruthers (1800-1882), Whig

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

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

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

  • : Cave Johnson (1793-1866), Democratic

  • : Milton Brown (1804-1883), Whig

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

Vermont

Senate
  • 3: Samuel Prentiss (1782-1857), Whig …resigned April 11 1842.
    Samuel C. Crafts (1768-1853), Whig …appointed to fill vacancy April 23 1842, subsequently elected.
  • 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

  • : Augustus Young (1784-1857), Whig

  • : John Mattocks (1777-1847), Whig

Virginia

Senate
  • 1: William C. Rives (1793-1868), Whig
  • 2: William S. Archer (1789-1855), Whig
House of Representatives (21 seats)

  • : Francis Mallory (1807-1860), Whig

  • : George B. Cary (1811-1850), Democratic

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

  • : William O. Goode (1798-1859), Democratic

  • : Edmund W. Hubard (1806-1878), Democratic

  • : Walter Coles (1790-1857), Democratic

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

  • : Henry A. Wise (1806-1876), Whig

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

  • : John Taliaferro (1768-1852), Whig

  • : John M. Botts (1802-1869), Whig

  • : Thomas W. Gilmer (1802-1844), Whig

  • : Linn Banks (1784-1842), Democratic …contested election, served until December 6 1841.

    William Smith (1797-1887), Democratic …contested election, seated December 6 1841.

  • : Cuthbert Powell (1775-1849), Whig

  • : Richard W. Barton (1800-1859), Whig

  • : William A. Harris (1805-1864), Democratic

  • : Alexander H. H. Stuart (1807-1891), Whig

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

  • : George W. Summers (1804-1868), Whig

  • : Samuel L. Hays (1794-1871), Democratic

  • : Lewis Steenrod (1810-1862), Democratic

Delegates

Florida Territory

  • : David Levy Yulee (1810-1886), Democratic

Iowa Territory

  • : Augustus C. Dodge (1812-1883), Democratic

Wisconsin Territory

  • : Henry Dodge (1782-1867), Democratic