35th United States Congress - political parties

The Thirty-fifth 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 1857 to March 3 1859, during the first two years of the administration of U.S. President James Buchanan.

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: 35th United States Congress
See also: 35th United States Congress - State Delegations
See also: United States House elections, 1856

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

Dates of sessions

March 4 1857 - March 3 1859

  • Special session of the Senate: March 4 1857 - March 14 1857
  • First session: December 7 1857 - June 14 1858
  • Special session of the Senate: June 15 1858 - June 16 1858
  • Second session: December 6 1858 - March 3 1859 — a lame duck session

Previous congress: 34th Congress
Next congress: 36th Congress

Party summary

Senate
  • Democratic: 41 (majority)
  • Republican: 20
  • American: 5

TOTAL members: 66
House of Representatives
  • Democratic: 132 (majority)
  • Republican: 90
  • American: 14
  • Independent Democratic: 1

TOTAL members: 237

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
  • Philip Allen (1785-1865), Rhode Island
  • Martin W. Bates (1786-1869), Delaware
  • James A. Bayard, Jr. (1799-1880), Delaware
  • Judah P. Benjamin (1811-1884), Louisiana
  • Asa Biggs (1811-1878), North Carolina …resigned May 5 1858.
  • William Bigler (1814-1880), Pennsylvania
  • Jesse D. Bright (1812-1875), Indiana
  • David C. Broderick (1820-1859), California
  • Albert G. Brown (1813-1880), Mississippi
  • Andrew P. Butler (1796-1857), South Carolina …died May 25 1857.
  • James Chesnut, Jr. (1815-1885), South Carolina …elected to fill vacancy, December 3 1858.
  • Clement C. Clay, Jr. (1816-1882), Alabama
  • Thomas L. Clingman (1812-1897), North Carolina …appointed to fill vacancy, May 6 1858.
  • Jefferson Davis (1808-1889), Mississippi
  • Stephen A. Douglas (1813-1861), Illinois
  • Josiah J. Evans (1786-1858), South Carolina …died May 6 1858.
  • Graham N. Fitch (1809-1892), Indiana
  • Benjamin Fitzpatrick (1802-1869), Alabama
G-L
  • James S. Green (1817-1870), Missouri
  • William M. Gwin (1805-1885), California
  • James H. Hammond (1807-1864), South Carolina …elected to fill vacancy, December 7 1857.
  • Arthur P. Hayne (1788/1790-1867), South Carolina …appointed to fill vacancy, May 11 1858.
  • J. Pinckney Henderson (1808-1858), Texas …elected to fill vacancy, November 9 1857, died June 4 1858.
  • Robert M. T. Hunter (1809-1887), Virginia
  • Alfred Iverson, Sr. (1798-1873), Georgia
  • Andrew Johnson (1808-1875), Tennessee
  • Robert W. Johnson (1814-1879), Arkansas
  • George W. Jones (1804-1896), Iowa
  • David Levy Yulee (1810-1886), Florida
M-R
  • Stephen R. Mallory (1813c-1873), Florida
  • James M. Mason (1798-1871), Virginia
  • James A. Pearce (1805-1862), Maryland
  • Trusten Polk (1811-1876), Missouri
  • George E. Pugh (1822-1876), Ohio
  • David S. Reid (1813-1891), North Carolina
  • Henry M. Rice (1816-1894), Minnesota …newly admitted state, seated May 12 1858.
  • Thomas J. Rusk (1803-1857), Texas …died July 29 1857.
S-Z
  • William K. Sebastian (1812-1865), Arkansas
  • James Shields (1806/1810-1879), Minnesota …newly admitted state, seated May 12 1858.
  • John Slidell (1793-1871), Louisiana
  • Delazon Smith (1816-1860), Oregon …newly admitted state, seated February 14 1859.
  • Charles E. Stuart (1810-1887), Michigan
  • John R. Thomson (1800-1862), New Jersey
  • Robert A. Toombs (1810-1885), Georgia
  • Lyman Trumbull (1813-1896), Illinois
  • Matthias Ward (1805-1861), Texas …appointed to fill vacancy, September 17 1858.
  • William Wright (1794-1866), New Jersey
  • David Levy Yulee (1810-1886), Florida

Republican

A-F
  • James Bell (1804-1857), New Hampshire …died May 26 1857.
  • Simon Cameron (1799-1889), Pennsylvania
  • Zachariah Chandler (1813-1879), Michigan
  • Daniel Clark (1809-1891), New Hampshire …elected to fill vacancy, June 27 1857.
  • Jacob Collamer (1791-1865), Vermont
  • James Dixon (1814-1873), Connecticut
  • James R. Doolittle (1815-1897), Wisconsin
  • Charles Durkee (1805-1870), Wisconsin
  • William Pitt Fessenden (1806-1869), Maine
  • Solomon Foot (1802-1866), Vermont
  • La Fayette S. Foster (1806-1880), Connecticut
G-L
  • John P. Hale (1806-1873), New Hampshire
  • Hannibal Hamlin (1809-1891), Maine
  • James Harlan (1820-1899), Iowa
  • Preston King (1806-1865), New York
M-Z
  • William H. Seward (1801-1872), New York
  • James F. Simmons (1795-1864), Rhode Island
  • Charles Sumner (1811-1874), Massachusetts
  • Benjamin F. Wade (1800-1878), Ohio
  • Henry Wilson (1812-1875), Massachusetts

American

A-Z
  • John Bell (1797-1869), Tennessee
  • John J. Crittenden (1786-1863), Kentucky
  • Samuel Houston (1793-1863), Texas
  • Anthony Kennedy (1810-1892), Maryland
  • John B. Thompson (1810-1874), Kentucky

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
  • Garnett B. Adrain (1815-1878), New Jersey
  • John A. Ahl (1813-1882), Pennsylvania
  • Samuel Arnold (1806-1869), Connecticut
  • John D. C. Atkins (1825-1908), Tennessee
  • William T. Avery (1819-1880), Tennessee
  • William Barksdale (1821-1863), Mississippi
  • William D. Bishop (1827-1904), Connecticut
  • Thomas S. Bocock (1815-1891), Virginia
  • Milledge L. Bonham (1813-1890), South Carolina
  • Thomas F. Bowie (1808-1869), Maryland
  • William W. Boyce (1818-1890), South Carolina
  • Lawrence O'Bryan Branch (1820-1862), North Carolina
  • Guy M. Bryan (1821-1901), Texas
  • Henry C. Burnett (1825-1866), Kentucky
  • Joseph Burns (1800-1875), Ohio
  • Samuel Caruthers (1820-1860), Missouri
  • John S. Caskie (1821-1869), Virginia
  • James M. Cavanaugh (1823-1879), Minnesota …newly admitted state, seated May 22 1858.
  • Henry Chapman (1804-1891), Pennsylvania
  • Horace F. Clark (1815-1873), New York
  • John B. Clark (1802-1885), Missouri …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 7 1857.
  • James B. Clay (1817-1864), Kentucky
  • Sherrard Clemens (1820-1881), Virginia
  • Williamson R. W. Cobb (1807-1864), Alabama
  • John Cochrane (1813-1898), New York
  • Joseph R. Cockerill (1818-1875), Ohio
  • Erastus Corning (1794-1872), New York
  • Samuel S. Cox (1824-1889), Ohio
  • James Craig (1818-1888), Missouri
  • F. Burton Craige (1811-1875), North Carolina
  • Martin J. Crawford (1820-1883), Georgia
  • Jabez L. M. Curry (1825-1903), Alabama
D-E-F
  • Thomas G. Davidson (1805-1883), Louisiana
  • John G. Davis (1810-1866), Indiana
  • Reuben Davis (1813-1890), Mississippi
  • William L. Dewart (1821-1888), Pennsylvania
  • William H. Dimmick (1815-1861), Pennsylvania
  • James F. Dowdell (1818-1871), Alabama
  • Henry A. Edmundson (1814-1890), Virginia
  • John M. Elliott (1820-1879), Kentucky
  • William H. English (1822-1896), Indiana
  • Charles J. Faulkner (1806-1884), Virginia
  • Thomas B. Florence (1812-1875), Pennsylvania
  • James B. Foley (1807-1886), Indiana
G-H-I
  • Muscoe R. H. Garnett (1821-1864), Virginia
  • Lucius J. Gartrell (1821-1891), Georgia
  • James L. Gillis (1792-1881), Pennsylvania
  • William O. Goode (1798-1859), Virginia
  • James S. Green (1817-1870), Missouri …resigned before Congress assembled.
  • Alfred B. Greenwood (1811-1889), Arkansas
  • James M. Gregg (1806-1869), Indiana
  • William S. Groesbeck (1815-1897), Ohio
  • La Fayette Grover (1823-1911), Oregon …newly admitted state, seated October 30 1858.
  • Lawrence W. Hall (1819-1863), Ohio
  • Thomas L. Harris (1816-1858), Illinois …died November 24 1858.
  • John B. Haskin (1821-1895), New York
  • Israel T. Hatch (1808-1875), New York
  • George S. Hawkins (1808-1878), Florida
  • John Hickman (1810-1875), Pennsylvania
  • Charles D. Hodges (1810-1884), Illinois …elected to fill vacancy, seated January 20 1859.
  • George W. Hopkins (1804-1861), Virginia
  • George S. Houston (1811-1879), Alabama
  • James Hughes (1823-1873), Indiana
  • John Huyler (1808-1870), New Jersey
J-K-L
  • James Jackson (1819-1887), Georgia
  • Albert G. Jenkins (1830-1864), Virginia
  • Joshua H. Jewett (1815-1861), Kentucky
  • George W. Jones (1806-1884), Tennessee
  • J. Glancey Jones (1811-1878), Pennsylvania …resigned October 30 1858.
  • Owen Jones (1819-1878), Pennsylvania
  • Laurence M. Keitt (1824-1864), South Carolina
  • John Kelly (1822-1886), New York …resigned December 25 1858.
  • Jacob M. Kunkel (1822-1870), Maryland
  • Lucius Q. C. Lamar (1825-1893), Mississippi
  • James Landy (1813-1875), Pennsylvania
  • William Lawrence (1814-1895), Ohio
  • Paul Leidy (1813-1877), Pennsylvania …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 7 1857.
  • John Letcher (1813-1884), Virginia
  • James Lockhart (1806-1857), Indiana …died September 7 1857, before Congress assembled.
M-N-O
  • William B. Maclay (1812-1882), New York
  • Samuel S. Marshall (1821-1890), Illinois
  • John C. Mason (1802-1865), Kentucky
  • Joseph C. McKibbin (1824-1896), California
  • John McQueen (1804-1867), South Carolina
  • John J. McRae (1815-1868), Mississippi …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 7 1858.
  • William P. Miles (1822-1899), South Carolina
  • Joseph Miller (1819-1862), Ohio
  • John S. Millson (1808-1874), Virginia
  • John G. Montgomery (1805-1857), Pennsylvania …died April 24 1857, before Congress assembled.
  • William Montgomery (1818-1870), Pennsylvania
  • Sydenham Moore (1817-1862), Alabama
  • Isaac N. Morris (1812-1879), Illinois
  • William E. Niblack (1822-1893), Indiana …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 7 1857.
  • James L. Orr (1822-1873), South Carolina
P-Q-R
  • George H. Pendleton (1825-1889), Ohio
  • Samuel O. Peyton (1804-1870), Kentucky
  • John S. Phelps (1814-1886), Missouri
  • William W. Phelps (1826-1873), Minnesota …newly admitted state, seated May 22 1858.
  • Henry M. Phillips (1811-1884), Pennsylvania
  • Paulus Powell (1809-1874), Virginia
  • John A. Quitman (1799-1858), Mississippi …died July 17 1858.
  • John H. Reagan (1818-1905), Texas
  • Wilson Reilly (1811-1885), Pennsylvania
  • Thomas H. Ruffin (1820-1863), North Carolina
  • William F. Russell (1812-1896), New York
S-T-U-V
  • John M. Sandidge (1817-1890), Louisiana
  • John H. Savage (1815-1904), Tennessee
  • Alfred M. Scales (1827-1892), North Carolina
  • Charles L. Scott (1827-1899), California
  • John A. Searing (1805-1876), New York
  • James L. Seward (1813-1886), Georgia
  • Aaron Shaw (1811-1887), Illinois
  • Henry M. Shaw (1819-1864), North Carolina
  • Eli S. Shorter (1823-1879), Alabama
  • Daniel E. Sickles (1819-1914), New York
  • Otho R. Singleton (1814-1889), Mississippi
  • Robert Smith (1802-1867), Illinois
  • Samuel A. Smith (1822-1863), Tennessee
  • William Smith (1797-1887), Virginia
  • James A. Stallworth (1822-1861), Alabama
  • Alexander H. Stephens (1812-1883), Georgia
  • John W. Stevenson (1812-1886), Kentucky
  • James A. Stewart (1808-1879), Maryland
  • Albert G. Talbott (1808-1887), Kentucky
  • George Taylor (1820-1894), New York
  • Miles Taylor (1805-1873), Louisiana
  • Clement L. Vallandigham (1820-1871), Ohio …contested election, seated May 25 1858.
W-X-Y-Z
  • Elijah Ward (1816-1882), New York
  • Edward A. Warren (1818-1875), Arkansas
  • Albert G. Watkins (1818-1895), Tennessee
  • Allison White (1816-1886), Pennsylvania
  • William G. Whiteley (1819-1886), Delaware
  • Warren Winslow (1810-1862), North Carolina
  • Jacob R. Wortendyke (1818-1868), New Jersey
  • Augustus R. Wright (1813-1891), Georgia
  • John V. Wright (1828-1908), Tennessee

Republican

A-B-C
  • Nehemiah Abbott (1804-1877), Maine
  • Samuel G. Andrews (1796-1863), New York
  • Nathaniel P. Banks (1816-1894), Massachusetts …resigned December 24 1857.
  • Henry Bennett (1808-1868), New York
  • Charles Billinghurst (1818-1865), Wisconsin
  • John A. Bingham (1815-1900), Ohio
  • Philemon Bliss (1813-1889), Ohio
  • William D. Brayton (1815-1887), Rhode Island
  • Samuel Brenton (1810-1857), Indiana …died March 29 1857, before Congress assembled.
  • James Buffinton (1817-1875), Massachusetts
  • Anson Burlingame (1820-1870), Massachusetts
  • Silas M. Burroughs (1810-1860), New York
  • Lewis D. Campbell (1811-1882), Ohio …contested election, served until May 25 1858.
  • Charles Case (1817-1883), Indiana …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 7 1857.
  • Calvin C. Chaffee (1811-1896), Massachusetts
  • Ezra Clark, Jr. (1813-1896), Connecticut
  • Isaiah D. Clawson (1822-1879), New Jersey
  • Clark B. Cochrane (1815-1867), New York
  • Schuyler Colfax (1823-1885), Indiana
  • Linus B. Comins (1817-1892), Massachusetts
  • John Covode (1808-1871), Pennsylvania
  • Aaron H. Cragin (1821-1898), New Hampshire
  • Samuel R. Curtis (1805-1866), Iowa
D-E-F
  • William S. Damrell (1809-1860), Massachusetts
  • Timothy Davis (1794-1872), Iowa
  • Timothy Davis (1821-1888), Massachusetts
  • Henry L. Dawes (1816-1903), Massachusetts
  • Sidney Dean (1818-1901), Connecticut
  • John [...] (1794-1872), Pennsylvania
  • Edward Dodd (1805-1891), New York
  • Nathaniel B. Durfee (1812-1872), Rhode Island
  • John R. Edie (1814-1888), Pennsylvania
  • John F. Farnsworth (1820-1897), Illinois
  • Reuben E. Fenton (1819-1885), New York
  • Stephen C. Foster (1799-1872), Maine
G-H-I
  • Joshua R. Giddings (1795-1864), Ohio
  • Charles J. Gilman (1824-1901), Maine
  • Daniel W. Gooch (1820-1891), Massachusetts …elected to fill vacancy, seated January 21 1858.
  • Henry C. Goodwin (1824-1860), New York
  • Amos P. Granger (1789-1866), New York
  • Galusha A. Grow (1823-1907), Pennsylvania
  • Robert B. Hall (1812-1868), Massachusetts
  • Aaron Harlan (1802-1868), Ohio
  • Charles B. Hoard (1805-1886), New York
  • Valentine B. Horton (1802-1888), Ohio
  • William A. Howard (1813-1880), Michigan
J-K-L
  • William H. Keim (1813-1862), Pennsylvania …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 7 1858.
  • William Kellogg (1814-1872), Illinois
  • William H. Kelsey (1812-1879), New York
  • David Kilgore (1804-1879), Indiana
  • Chauncey L. Knapp (1809-1898), Massachusetts
  • John C. Kunkel (1816-1870), Pennsylvania
  • De Witt C. Leach (1822-1909), Michigan
  • Benjamin F. Leiter (1813-1866), Ohio
  • Owen Lovejoy (1811-1864), Illinois
M-N-O
  • Orsamus B. Matteson (1805-1889), New York
  • Edwin B. Morgan (1806-1881), New York
  • Justin S. Morrill (1810-1898), Vermont
  • Edward Joy Morris (1815-1881), Pennsylvania
  • Freeman H. Morse (1807-1891), Maine
  • Oliver A. Morse (1815-1870), New York
  • Richard Mott (1804-1888), Ohio
  • Ambrose S. Murray (1807-1885), New York
  • Matthias H. Nichols (1824-1862), Ohio
  • Abram B. Olin (1808-1879), New York
P-Q-R
  • George W. Palmer (1818-1916), New York
  • John M. Parker (1805-1873), New York
  • John U. Pettit (1820-1881), Indiana
  • James Pike (1818-1895), New Hampshire
  • John F. Potter (1817-1899), Wisconsin
  • Emory B. Pottle (1815-1891), New York
  • Samuel A. Purviance (1809-1882), Pennsylvania
  • David Ritchie (1812-1867), Pennsylvania
  • George R. Robbins (1808-1875), New Jersey
  • Anthony E. Roberts (1803-1885), Pennsylvania
  • Homer E. Royce (1819-1891), Vermont
S-T-U-V
  • John Sherman (1823-1900), Ohio
  • Judson W. Sherman (1808-1881), New York
  • Francis E. Spinner (1802-1890), New York
  • Benjamin Stanton (1809-1872), Ohio
  • William Stewart (1810-1876), Pennsylvania
  • Mason W. Tappan (1817-1886), New Hampshire
  • Eli Thayer (1819-1899), Massachusetts
  • John Thompson (1809-1890), New York
  • Cydnor B. Tompkins (1810-1862), Ohio
W-X-Y-Z
  • Edward Wade (1802-1866), Ohio
  • David S. Walbridge (1802-1868), Michigan
  • Henry Waldron (1819-1880), Michigan
  • Eliakim P. Walton (1812-1890), Vermont
  • Cadwallader C. Washburn (1818-1882), Wisconsin
  • Israel Washburn, Jr. (1813-1883), Maine
  • Elihu B. Washburne (1816-1887), Illinois
  • James Wilson (1825-1867), Indiana
  • John M. Wood (1813-1864), Maine

American

A-L
  • Thomas L. Anderson (1808-1885), Missouri
  • Henry Winter Davis (1817-1865), Maryland
  • George Eustis, Jr. (1828-1872), Louisiana
  • John A. Gilmer (1805-1868), North Carolina
  • J. Morrison Harris (1817-1898), Maryland
  • Joshua Hill (1812-1891), Georgia
M-Z
  • Humphrey Marshall (1812-1872), Kentucky
  • Horace Maynard (1814-1882), Tennessee
  • Charles Ready (1802-1878), Tennessee
  • James B. Ricaud (1808-1866), Maryland
  • Robert P. Trippe (1819-1900), Georgia
  • Warner L. Underwood (1808-1872), Kentucky
  • Zebulon B. Vance (1830-1894), North Carolina …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 7 1858.
  • Samuel H. Woodson (1815-1881), Missouri
  • Felix K. Zollicoffer (1812-1862), Tennessee

Independent Democratic

  • Thomas J. Barr (1812-1881), New York …elected to fill vacancy, seated January 17 1859.
  • Francis P. Blair, Jr. (1821-1875), Missouri