33rd United States Congress - political parties

The Thirty-third 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 1853 to March 3 1855, during the first two years of the administration of U.S. President Franklin Pierce.

The apportionment of seats in this House of Representatives was based on the Sixth Census of the United States in 1850. Both chambers had a Democratic majority.

This article supplements the main article with a list of the members by political party.

Main article: 33rd United States Congress
See also: 33rd United States Congress - State Delegations
See also: United States House elections, 1852

The list below is arranged by chamber, then by political party. Members are shown in alphabetical order.

Dates of sessions

March 4 1853 - March 3 1855

  • Special session of the Senate: March 4 1853 - April 11 1853
  • First session: December 5 1853 - August 7 1854
  • Second session: December 4 1854 - March 3 1855 — a lame duck session

Previous congress: 32nd Congress
Next congress: 34th Congress

Party summary

Senate
  • Democratic: 38 (majority)
  • Whig: 22
  • Free Soil: 2

TOTAL members: 62
House of Representatives
  • Democratic: 157 (majority)
  • Whig: 71
  • Free Soil: 4
  • Independent Democrat: 1
  • Independent: 1

TOTAL members: 234

Senate

Senators were elected by the state legislatures every two years, with one-third beginning new six year terms with each Congress.

Democratic

A-F
  • Stephen Adams (1807-1857), Mississippi
  • Philip Allen (1785-1865), Rhode Island …elected to fill vacancy in class, July 20 1853.
  • David R. Atchison (1807-1886), Missouri
  • Charles G. Atherton (1804-1853), New Hampshire …died November 15 1853.
  • James A. Bayard, Jr. (1799-1880), Delaware
  • Solon Borland (1808-1864), Arkansas …resigned April 3 1853.
  • Jesse D. Bright (1812-1875), Indiana
  • Richard Brodhead (1811-1863), Pennsylvania
  • Albert G. Brown (1813-1880), Mississippi …elected to fill vacancy in class, January 7 1854.
  • Andrew P. Butler (1796-1857), South Carolina
  • Lewis Cass (1782-1866), Michigan
  • Clement C. Clay, Jr. (1816-1882), Alabama …elected to fill vacancy in class, November 29 1853.
  • Augustus C. Dodge (1812-1883), Iowa
  • Henry Dodge (1782-1867), Wisconsin
  • Stephen A. Douglas (1813-1861), Illinois
  • Josiah J. Evans (1786-1858), South Carolina
  • Benjamin Fitzpatrick (1802-1869), Alabama
G-L
  • William M. Gwin (1805-1885), California
  • Hannibal Hamlin (1809-1891), Maine
  • Samuel Houston (1793-1863), Texas
  • Robert M. T. Hunter (1809-1887), Virginia
  • Charles T. James (1805-1862), Rhode Island
  • Robert W. Johnson (1814-1879), Arkansas …appointed to fill vacancy, July 6 1853.
  • George W. Jones (1804-1896), Iowa
M-R
  • Stephen R. Mallory (1813c-1873), Florida
  • James M. Mason (1798-1871), Virginia
  • Moses Norris, Jr. (1799-1855), New Hampshire …died January 11 1855.
  • John Pettit (1807-1877), Indiana
  • David S. Reid (1813-1891), North Carolina …elected to fill vacancy in class, December 6 1854.
  • Thomas J. Rusk (1803-1857), Texas
S-Z
  • William K. Sebastian (1812-1865), Arkansas
  • James Shields (1806/1810-1879), Illinois
  • John Slidell (1793-1871), Louisiana …elected to fill vacancy, April 28 1853.
  • Pierre Soulé (1801-1870), Louisiana …resigned April 11 1853.
  • Charles E. Stuart (1810-1887), Michigan
  • John R. Thomson (1800-1862), New Jersey …elected to fill vacancy from preceding Congress, March 4 1853.
  • Isaac Toucey (1792-1869), Connecticut
  • Isaac P. Walker (1815-1872), Wisconsin
  • John B. Weller (1812-1875), California
  • John S. Wells (1803-1860), New Hampshire …appointed to fill vacancy, January 16 1855.
  • Jared W. Williams (1796-1864), New Hampshire …appointed to fill vacancy, November 29 1853.
  • William Wright (1794-1866), New Jersey

Whig

A-F
  • George E. Badger (1795-1866), North Carolina
  • John Bell (1797-1869), Tennessee
  • Judah P. Benjamin (1811-1884), Louisiana
  • John M. Clayton (1796-1856), Delaware
  • James Cooper (1810-1863), Pennsylvania
  • William C. Dawson (1798-1856), Georgia
  • Archibald Dixon (1802-1876), Kentucky
  • Edward Everett (1794-1865), Massachusetts …resigned June 1 1854.
  • William Pitt Fessenden (1806-1869), Maine …elected to fill vacancy in class, February 10 1854.
  • Hamilton Fish (1808-1893), New York
  • Solomon Foot (1802-1866), Vermont
G-L
  • Henry S. Geyer (1790-1859), Missouri
  • James C. Jones (1809-1859), Tennessee
M-R
  • Jackson Morton (1794-1874), Florida
  • James A. Pearce (1805-1862), Maryland
  • Samuel S. Phelps (1793-1855), Vermont …appointed to fill vacancy in preceding Congress, seat declared vacant March 16 1854.
  • Thomas G. Pratt (1804-1869), Maryland
  • Julius Rockwell (1805-1888), Massachusetts …appointed to fill vacancy, June 3 1854.
S-Z
  • William H. Seward (1801-1872), New York
  • Truman Smith (1791-1884), Connecticut …resigned May 24 1854.
  • John B. Thompson (1810-1874), Kentucky
  • Robert A. Toombs (1810-1885), Georgia
  • Benjamin F. Wade (1800-1878), Ohio

Free Soil

A-Z
  • Lawrence Brainerd (1794-1870), Vermont …elected to fill vacancy, October 14 1854.
  • Salmon P. Chase (1808-1873), Ohio
  • Francis Gillette (1807-1879), Connecticut …elected to fill vacancy, May 25 1854.
  • Charles Sumner (1811-1874), Massachusetts
  • Henry Wilson (1812-1875), Massachusetts …elected to fill vacancy, January 31 1855.

House of Representatives

Members of the House of Representatives were elected by popular vote, variously to single member districts or at-large.

Democratic

A-B-C
  • William Aiken (1806-1887), South Carolina
  • James C. Allen (1822-1912), Illinois
  • Willis Allen (1806-1859), Illinois
  • William S. Ashe (1814-1862), North Carolina
  • David J. Bailey (1812-1897), Georgia
  • Nathaniel P. Banks (1816-1894), Massachusetts
  • William Barksdale (1821-1863), Mississippi
  • William T. S. Barry (1821-1868), Mississippi
  • Thomas H. Bayly (1810-1856), Virginia
  • Nathan Belcher (1813-1891), Connecticut
  • Peter H. Bell (1812-1898), Texas
  • Thomas H. Benton (1782-1858), Missouri
  • George Bliss (1813-1868), Ohio
  • Thomas S. Bocock (1815-1891), Virginia
  • William W. Boyce (1818-1890), South Carolina
  • Linn Boyd (1800-1859), Kentucky
  • John C. Breckinridge (1821-1875), Kentucky
  • Samuel A. Bridges (1802-1884), Pennsylvania
  • Preston S. Brooks (1819-1857), South Carolina
  • Brookins Campbell (1808-1853), Tennessee …died December 25 1853.
  • John S. Caskie (1821-1869), Virginia
  • Ebenezer M. Chamberlain (1805-1861), Indiana
  • Elijah W. Chastain (1813-1874), Georgia
  • James S. Chrisman (1818-1881), Kentucky
  • William M. Churchwell (1826-1862), Tennessee
  • Samuel Clark (1800-1870), Michigan
  • Thomas L. Clingman (1812-1897), North Carolina
  • Williamson R. W. Cobb (1807-1864), Alabama
  • Alfred H. Colquitt (1824-1894), Georgia
  • F. Burton Craige (1811-1875), North Carolina
  • Thomas W. Cumming (1814/1815-1855), New York
  • Carlton B. Curtis (1811-1883), Pennsylvania
  • Francis B. [...] (1804-1870), New York
D-E-F
  • John G. Davis (1810-1866), Indiana
  • Thomas Davis (1806-1895), Rhode Island
  • John L. Dawson (1813-1870), Pennsylvania
  • Gilbert Dean (1819-1870), New York …resigned July 3 1854.
  • William B. W. Dent (1806-1855), Georgia
  • David T. Disney (1803-1857), Ohio
  • James F. Dowdell (1818-1871), Alabama
  • Augustus Drum (1815-1858), Pennsylvania
  • William Dunbar (1805-1861), Louisiana
  • Cyrus L. Dunham (1817-1877), Indiana
  • Ben C. Eastman (1812-1856), Wisconsin
  • Norman Eddy (1810-1872), Indiana
  • Alfred P. Edgerton (1813-1897), Ohio
  • Henry A. Edmundson (1814-1890), Virginia
  • John M. Elliott (1820-1879), Kentucky
  • Andrew Ellison (1812-1860), Ohio
  • William H. English (1822-1896), Indiana
  • Charles J. Faulkner (1806-1884), Virginia
  • Reuben E. Fenton (1819-1885), New York
  • Thomas B. Florence (1812-1875), Pennsylvania
  • Thomas J. D. Fuller (1808-1876), Maine
G-H-I
  • James Gamble (1809-1883), Pennsylvania
  • William O. Goode (1798-1859), Virginia
  • Frederick W. Green (1816-1879), Ohio
  • Alfred B. Greenwood (1811-1889), Arkansas
  • Galusha A. Grow (1823-1907), Pennsylvania
  • William T. Hamilton (1820-1888), Maryland
  • Andrew J. Harlan (1815-1907), Indiana
  • Sampson W. Harris (1809-1857), Alabama
  • Wiley P. Harris (1818-1891), Mississippi
  • George Hastings (1807-1866), New York
  • Thomas A. Hendricks (1819-1885), Indiana
  • Bernhart Henn (1817-1865), Iowa
  • Harry Hibbard (1816-1872), New Hampshire
  • Junius Hillyer (1807-1886), Georgia
  • George S. Houston (1811-1879), Alabama
  • Charles Hughes (1822-1887), New York
  • Colin M. Ingersoll (1819-1903), Connecticut
J-K-L
  • Harvey H. Johnson (1808-1896), Ohio
  • Daniel T. Jones (1800-1861), New York
  • George W. Jones (1806-1884), Tennessee
  • J. Glancey Jones (1811-1878), Pennsylvania …elected to fill vacancy, seated February 13 1854.
  • Roland Jones (1813-1869), Louisiana
  • Laurence M. Keitt (1824-1864), South Carolina
  • Zedekiah Kidwell (1814-1872), Virginia
  • George W. Kittredge (1805-1881), New Hampshire
  • William H. Kurtz (1804-1868), Pennsylvania
  • Alfred W. Lamb (1824-1888), Missouri
  • James H. Lane (1814-1866), Indiana
  • Milton S. Latham (1827-1882), California
  • John Letcher (1813-1884), Virginia
  • Charles S. Lewis (1821-1878), Virginia …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 4 1854.
  • Samuel Lilly (1815-1880), New Jersey
  • William D. Lindsley (1812-1890), Ohio
M-N-O
  • Moses MacDonald (1815-1869), Maine
  • Daniel Mace (1811-1867), Indiana
  • John B. Macy (1799-1856), Wisconsin
  • James Maurice (1814-1884), New York
  • Augustus E. Maxwell (1820-1903), Florida
  • Henry May (1816-1866), Maryland
  • Samuel Mayall (1816-1892), Maine
  • James A. McDougall (1817-1867), California
  • LaFayette McMullen (1805-1880), Virginia
  • John McNair (1800-1861), Pennsylvania
  • John McQueen (1804-1867), South Carolina
  • Smith Miller (1804-1872), Indiana
  • John S. Millson (1808-1874), Virginia
  • George W. Morrison (1809-1888), New Hampshire
  • Henry A. Muhlenberg (1823-1854), Pennsylvania …died January 9 1854.
  • William Murray (1803-1875), New York
  • Matthias H. Nichols (1824-1862), Ohio
  • David A. Noble (1802-1876), Michigan
  • Edson B. Olds (1802-1869), Ohio
  • Andrew Oliver (1815-1889), New York
  • James L. Orr (1822-1873), South Carolina
P-Q-R
  • Asa Packer (1805-1879), Pennsylvania
  • Jared V. Peck (1816-1891), New York
  • Rufus W. Peckham (1809-1873), New York
  • Bishop Perkins (1787-1866), New York
  • John Perkins, Jr. (1819-1885), Louisiana
  • John S. Phelps (1814-1886), Missouri
  • Philip Phillips (1807-1884), Alabama
  • Paulus Powell (1809-1874), Virginia
  • James T. Pratt (1802-1887), Connecticut
  • William A. Richardson (1811-1875), Illinois
  • George Read Riddle (1817-1867), Delaware
  • Thomas Ritchey (1801-1863), Ohio
  • John Robbins, Jr. (1808-1880), Pennsylvania
  • Peter Rowe (1807-1876), New York
  • Thomas H. Ruffin (1820-1863), North Carolina
S-T-U-V
  • James L. Seward (1813-1886), Georgia
  • Origen S. Seymour (1804-1881), Connecticut
  • Wilson Shannon (1802-1877), Ohio
  • Henry M. Shaw (1819-1864), North Carolina
  • Jacob Shower (1803-1879), Maryland
  • Otho R. Singleton (1814-1889), Mississippi
  • Charles Skelton (1806-1879), New Jersey
  • Samuel A. Smith (1822-1863), Tennessee
  • William Smith (1797-1887), Virginia
  • William R. Smith (1815-1896), Alabama
  • George W. Smyth (1803-1866), Texas
  • John F. Snodgrass (1804-1854), Virginia …died June 5 1854.
  • Frederick P. Stanton (1814-1894), Tennessee
  • Richard H. Stanton (1812-1891), Kentucky
  • Hestor L. Stevens (1803-1864), Michigan
  • Nathan T. Stratton (1813-1887), New Jersey
  • Christian M. Straub (1804- ), Pennsylvania
  • Andrew Stuart (1823-1872), Ohio
  • David Stuart (1816-1868), Michigan
  • John J. Taylor (1808-1892), New York
  • Benjamin B. Thurston (1804-1886), Rhode Island
  • Michael C. Trout (1810-1873), Pennsylvania
  • William M. Tweed (1823-1878), New York
  • George Vail (1809-1875), New Jersey
  • Joshua Van Sant (1803-1884), Maryland
W-X-Y-Z
  • Hiram Walbridge (1821-1870), New York
  • William A. Walker (1805-1861), New York
  • Michael Walsh (1810-1859), New York
  • Edward A. Warren (1818-1875), Arkansas
  • Daniel Wells, Jr. (1808-1902), Wisconsin
  • John Wentworth (1815-1888), Illinois
  • Theodoric R. Westbrook (1821-1885), New York
  • John Wheeler (1823-1906), New York
  • William H. Witte (1817-1876), Pennsylvania
  • Daniel B. Wright (1812-1887), Mississippi
  • Hendrick B. Wright (1808-1881), Pennsylvania

Whig

A-B-C
  • James Abercrombie (1795-1861), Alabama
  • William Appleton (1786-1862), Massachusetts
  • Edward Ball (1811-1872), Ohio
  • Henry Bennett (1808-1868), New York
  • Samuel P. Benson (1804-1876), Maine
  • Azariah Boody (1815-1885), New York …resigned October 1853, before Congress assembled.
  • Francis M. Bristow (1804-1864), Kentucky …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 4 1854.
  • Robert M. Bugg (1805-1887), Tennessee
  • Lewis D. Campbell (1811-1882), Ohio
  • Davis Carpenter (1799-1878), New York …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 5 1853.
  • Samuel Caruthers (1820-1860), Missouri
  • Joseph R. Chandler (1792-1880), Pennsylvania
  • George W. Chase ( -1867), New York
  • John P. Cook (1817-1872), Iowa
  • Moses B. Corwin (1790-1872), Ohio
  • Leander M. Cox (1812-1865), Kentucky
  • Samuel L. Crocker (1804-1883), Massachusetts
  • William Cullom (1810-1896), Tennessee
D-E-F
  • John [...] (1794-1872), Pennsylvania
  • Edward Dickinson (1803-1874), Massachusetts
  • J. Wiley Edmands (1809-1877), Massachusetts
  • Thomas D. Eliot (1808-1870), Massachusetts …elected to fill vacancy, seated April 17 1854.
  • Emerson Etheridge (1819-1902), Tennessee
  • William Everhart (1785-1868), Pennsylvania
  • Presley V. Ewing (1822-1854), Kentucky …died September 27 1854.
  • E. Wilder Farley (1817-1880), Maine
  • Thomas T. Flagler (1811-1897), New York
  • John R. Franklin (1820-1878), Maryland
G-H-I
  • John Z. Goodrich (1804-1885), Massachusetts
  • Henry C. Goodwin (1824-1860), New York …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 4 1854.
  • Benjamin E. Grey ( - ), Kentucky
  • Aaron Harlan (1802-1868), Ohio
  • John Scott Harrison (1804-1878), Ohio
  • Solomon G. Haven (1810-1861), New York
  • Isaac E. Hiester (1824-1871), Pennsylvania
  • Clement S. Hill (1813-1892), Kentucky
  • Thomas M. Howe (1808-1877), Pennsylvania
  • Theodore G. Hunt (1805-1893), Louisiana
J-K-L
  • John Kerr, Jr. (1811-1879), North Carolina
  • James Knox (1807-1876), Illinois
  • James J. Lindley (1822-1891), Missouri
M-N-O
  • Orsamus B. Matteson (1805-1889), New York
  • John McCulloch (1806-1879), Pennsylvania
  • James Meacham (1810-1856), Vermont
  • Ner A. Middleswarth (1783-1865), Pennsylvania
  • John G. Miller (1812-1856), Missouri
  • Edwin B. Morgan (1806-1881), New York
  • Jesse O. Norton (1812-1875), Illinois
  • Mordecai Oliver (1819-1898), Missouri
P-Q-R
  • Samuel W. Parker (1805-1859), Indiana
  • Alexander C. M. Pennington (1810-1867), New Jersey
  • William Preston (1816-1887), Kentucky
  • Benjamin Pringle (1807-1887), New York
  • Richard C. Puryear (1801-1867), North Carolina
  • Charles Ready (1802-1878), Tennessee
  • David A. Reese (1794-1871), Georgia
  • David Ritchie (1812-1867), Pennsylvania
  • Sion H. Rogers (1825-1874), North Carolina
  • Samuel L. Russell (1816-1891), Pennsylvania
S-T-U-V
  • Alvah Sabin (1793-1885), Vermont
  • Russell Sage (1816-1906), New York
  • William R. Sapp (1804-1875), Ohio
  • Zeno Scudder (1807-1857), Massachusetts …resigned March 4 1854.
  • George A. Simmons (1791-1857), New York
  • Augustus R. Sollers (1814-1862), Maryland
  • Alexander H. Stephens (1812-1883), Georgia
  • John L. Taylor (1805-1870), Ohio
  • Nathaniel G. Taylor (1819-1887), Tennessee …elected to fill vacancy, seated March 30 1854.
  • Isaac Teller (1799-1868), New York …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 4 1854.
  • Andrew Tracy (1797-1868), Vermont
  • Charles W. Upham (1802-1875), Massachusetts
W-X-Y-Z
  • Samuel H. Walley (1805-1877), Massachusetts
  • Israel Washburn, Jr. (1813-1883), Maine
  • Elihu B. Washburne (1816-1887), Illinois
  • Tappan Wentworth (1802-1875), Massachusetts
  • Richard Yates (1815-1873), Illinois
  • Felix K. Zollicoffer (1812-1862), Tennessee

Free Soil

A-Z
  • Alexander De Witt (1798-1879), Massachusetts
  • Joshua R. Giddings (1795-1864), Ohio
  • Gerrit Smith (1797-1874), New York …resigned August 7 1854.
  • Edward Wade (1802-1866), Ohio

Independent

  • Caleb Lyon (1822-1875), New York

Independent Democratic

  • William H. Bissell (1811-1860), Illinois