36th United States Congress
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The Thirty-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, 1859 to March 3, 1861, during the last two years of the administration of U.S. President James Buchanan.
The apportionment of seats in this House of Representatives was based on the Seventh Census of the United States in 1850. The Senate had a Democratic majority, and the House had a Republican majority.
[edit] Dates of sessions
- Special session of the Senate: March 4, 1859 - March 10, 1859
- First session: December 5, 1859 - June 25, 1860
- Special session of the Senate: June 26, 1860 - June 28, 1860
- Second session: December 3, 1860 - March 3, 1861 — a lame duck session
Previous congress: 35th Congress
Next congress: 37th Congress
[edit] Major events
- Main article: Events of 1859; Events of 1860; Events of 1861
[edit] Major legislation
- March 2, 1861 - Morrill tariff, ch. 68, 12 Stat. 178
[edit] Party summary
Kansas was newly admitted to the Union and first represented as a state in this Congress. South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Georgia, and Texas seceded from the Union during this Congress.
The count below identifies party affiliations at the beginning of the first session of this Congress, and includes members from vacancies and newly admitted states, when they were first seated. Changes resulting from subsequent replacements are shown below in the "Changes in membership" section.
[edit] Senate
- Democratic: 38 (majority)
- Republican: 26
- American: 2
- vacant: 2
TOTAL members: 66
[edit] House of Representatives
- Democratic: 83
- Republican: 116 (majority)
- American: 5
- Anti-Lecompton Democratic: 8
- Independent Democratic: 7
- Opposition: 19
TOTAL members: 238
[edit] Leadership
[edit] Senate
- Vice President of the United States (President of the Senate):
- President pro tempore of the Senate:
- Benjamin Fitzpatrick, Democrat of Alabama, elected March 9, 1859
- Jesse D. Bright, Democrat of Indiana, elected June 12, 1860
- Benjamin Fitzpatrick, Democrat of Alabama, elected June 26, 1860
- Solomon Foot, Democrat of Vermont, elected February 16, 1861
[edit] House of Representatives
- Speaker of the House
- William Pennington, Republican of New Jersey, elected February 1, 1860
[edit] Members
This list is arranged by chamber, then by state. Senators are listed in order of seniority, and Representatives are listed by district.
- See also: 36th United States Congress - Political Parties
- See also: 36th United States Congress - State Delegations
- See also: United States House election, 1858
[edit] Senate
At this time, 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 1862; Class 2 meant their term began with this Congress, requiring reelection in 1864; and Class 3 meant their term ended with this Congress, requiring reelection in 1860.
- 3. Benjamin Fitzpatrick (Dem.) …seceded state, withdrew January 21, 1861.
- 2. Clement C. Clay, Jr. (Dem.) …seceded state, withdrew January 21, 1861.
- 2. William K. Sebastian (Dem.)
- 3. Robert W. Johnson (Dem.)
- 3. William M. Gwin (Dem.)
- 1. David C. Broderick (Dem.) …died September 16, 1859.
- Henry P. Haun (Dem.) …appointed to fill vacancy, November 3, 1859.
- Milton S. Latham (Dem.) …elected to fill vacancy, March 5, 1860.
- 3. La Fayette S. Foster (Rep.)
- 1. James Dixon (Rep.)
- 1. James A. Bayard, Jr. (Dem.)
- 2. Willard Saulsbury, Sr. (Dem.)
- 1. Stephen R. Mallory (Dem.) …seceded state, withdrew January 21, 1861.
- 3. David L. Yulee (Dem.) …seceded state, withdrew January 21, 1861.
- 2. Robert A. Toombs (Dem.) …seceded state, withdrew January 21, 1861.
- 3. Alfred Iverson, Sr. (Dem.) …seceded state, withdrew January 28, 1861.
- 2. Stephen A. Douglas (Dem.)
- 3. Lyman Trumbull (Rep.)
- 1. Jesse D. Bright (Dem.)
- 3. Graham N. Fitch (Dem.)
- 3. James Harlan (Rep.)
- 2. James W. Grimes (Rep.)
- 3. John J. Crittenden (American)
- 2. Lazarus W. Powell (Dem.)
- 2. Judah P. Benjamin (Dem.) …seceded state, withdrew February 4, 1861.
- 3. John Slidell (Dem.) …seceded state, withdrew February 4, 1861.
- 2. William P. Fessenden (Rep.)
- 1. Hannibal Hamlin (Rep.) …resigned January 17, 1861.
- Lot M. Morrill (Rep.) …elected to fill vacancy, January 17, 1861.
- 3. James A. Pearce (Dem.)
- 1. Anthony Kennedy (American)
- 1. Charles Sumner (Rep.)
- 2. Henry Wilson (Rep.)
- 1. Zachariah Chandler (Rep.)
- 2. Kinsley S. Bingham (Rep.)
- 1. Henry Mower Rice (Dem.)
- 2. Morton S. Wilkinson (Rep.)
- 2. Albert G. Brown (Dem.) …seceded state, withdrew January 12, 1861.
- 1. Jefferson Davis (Dem.) …seceded state, withdrew January 21, 1861.
- 3. James S. Green (Dem.)
- 1. Trusten Polk (Dem.)
- 2. John P. Hale (Rep.)
- 3. Daniel Clark (Rep.)
- 1. John R. Thomson (Dem.)
- 2. John C. Ten Eyck (Rep.)
- 3. William H. Seward (Rep.)
- 1. Preston King (Rep.)
- 3. Thomas L. Clingman (Dem.)
- 2. Thomas Bragg (Dem.)
- 1. Benjamin F. Wade (Rep.)
- 3. George E. Pugh (Dem.)
- 3. Joseph Lane (Dem.)
- 2. Edward D. Baker (Rep.) …elected to fill vacancy in class, October 2, 1860.
- 3. William Bigler (Dem.)
- 1. Simon Cameron (Rep.)
- 1. James F. Simmons (Rep.)
- 2. Henry B. Anthony (Rep.)
- 3. James H. Hammond (Dem.) …seceded state, withdrew November 11, 1860.
- 2. James Chesnut, Jr. (Dem.) …seceded state, withdrew November 10, 1860.
- 1. Andrew Johnson (Dem.)
- 2. Alfred O. P. Nicholson (Dem.) …seceded state, withdrew March 3, 1861.
- 1. Matthias Ward (Dem.)
- Louis T. Wigfall (Dem.) …elected to fill vacancy from preceding Congress, December 5, 1859.
- 2. John Hemphill (Dem.)
- 1. Solomon Foot (Rep.)
- 3. Jacob Collamer (Rep.)
- 1. James M. Mason (Dem.)
- 2. Robert M.T. Hunter (Dem.)
- 3. Charles Durkee (Rep.)
- 1. James R. Doolittle (Rep.)
[edit] House of Representatives
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.
- 1. James A. Stallworth (Dem.) …seceded state, withdrew January 21, 1861.
- 2. James L. Pugh (Dem.) …seceded state, withdrew January 21, 1861.
- 3. David Clopton (Dem.) …seceded state, withdrew January 21, 1861.
- 4. Sydenham Moore (Dem.) …seceded state, withdrew January 21, 1861.
- 5. George S. Houston (Dem.) …seceded state, withdrew January 21, 1861.
- 6. Williamson R. W. Cobb (Dem.) …seceded state, withdrew January 30, 1861.
- 7. Jabez L.M. Curry (Dem.) …seceded state, withdrew January 21, 1861.
- 1. Dwight Loomis (Rep.)
- 2. John Woodruff (Rep.)
- 3. Alfred A. Burnham (Rep.)
- 4. Orris S. Ferry (Rep.)
- A/L. George S. Hawkins (Dem.) …seceded state, withdrew January 21, 1861.
- 1. Peter E. Love (Dem.) …seceded state, withdrew January 23, 1861.
- 2. Martin J. Crawford (Dem.) …seceded state, withdrew January 23, 1861.
- 3. Thomas Hardeman, Jr. (Independent) …seceded state, withdrew January 23, 1861.
- 4. Lucius J. Gartrell (Dem.) …seceded state, withdrew January 23, 1861.
- 5. John W. H. Underwood (Dem.) …seceded state, withdrew January 23, 1861.
- 6. James Jackson (Dem.) …seceded state, withdrew January 23, 1861.
- 7. Joshua Hill (Independent) …resigned January 23, 1861.
- 8. John J. Jones (Dem.) …seceded state, withdrew January 23, 1861.
- 1. Elihu B. Washburne (Rep.)
- 2. John F. Farnsworth (Rep.)
- 3. Owen Lovejoy (Rep.)
- 4. William Kellogg (Rep.)
- 5. Isaac N. Morris (Dem.)
- 6. John A. McClernand (Dem.) …elected to fill vacancy from preceding Congress, seat December 5, 1859.
- 7. James C. Robinson (Dem.)
- 8. Philip B. Fouke (Dem.)
- 9. John A. Logan (Dem.)
- 1. William E. Niblack (Dem.)
- 2. William H. English (Dem.)
- 3. William M. Dunn (Rep.)
- 4. William S. Holman (Dem.)
- 5. David Kilgore (Rep.)
- 6. Albert G. Porter (Rep.)
- 7. John G. Davis (Anti-LeCompton Dem.)
- 8. James Wilson (Rep.)
- 9. Schuyler Colfax (Rep.)
- 10. Charles Case (Rep.)
- 11. John U. Pettit (Rep.)
- A/L. Martin F. Conway (Rep.) …newly admitted state, seated January 30, 1861.
- 1. Henry C. Burnett (Dem.)
- 2. Samuel O. Peyton (Dem.)
- 3. Francis M. Bristow (Independent)
- 4. William C. Anderson (Independent)
- 5. John Y. Brown (Dem.)
- 6. Green Adams (Independent)
- 7. Robert Mallory (Independent)
- 8. William E. Simms (Dem.)
- 9. Laban T. Moore (Independent)
- 10. John W. Stevenson (Dem.)
- 1. John E. Bouligny (American)
- 2. Miles Taylor (Dem.) …seceded state, withdrew February 5, 1861.
- 3. Thomas G. Davidson (Dem.) …seceded state, did not occupy seat after February 5, 1861.
- 4. John M. Landrum (Dem.) …seceded state, did not occupy seat after February 5, 1861.
- 1. Daniel E. Somes (Rep.)
- 2. John J. Perry (Rep.)
- 3. Ezra B. French (Rep.)
- 4. Freeman H. Morse (Rep.)
- 5. Israel Washburn, Jr. (Rep.)
- Stephen Coburn (Rep.) …elected to fill vacancy, seated January 2, 1861.
- 6. Stephen C. Foster (Rep.)
- 1. James A. Stewart (Dem.)
- 2. Edwin H. Webster (American)
- 3. James M. Harris (American)
- 4. Henry W. Davis (American)
- 5. Jacob M. Kunkel (Dem.)
- 6. George W. Hughes (Dem.)
- 1. Thomas D. Eliot (Rep.)
- 2. James Buffinton (Rep.)
- 3. Charles Francis Adams, Sr. (Rep.)
- 4. Alexander H. Rice (Rep.)
- 5. Anson Burlingame (Rep.)
- 6. John B. Alley (Rep.)
- 7. Daniel W. Gooch (Rep.)
- 8. Charles R. Train (Rep.)
- 9. Eli Thayer (Rep.)
- 10. Charles Delano (Rep.)
- 11. Henry L. Dawes (Rep.)
- 1. George B. Cooper (Dem.) …contested election, served until May 15, 1860.
- William A. Howard (Rep.) …contested election, seated May 15, 1860.
- 2. Henry Waldron (Rep.)
- 3. Francis W. Kellogg (Rep.)
- 4. De Witt C. Leach (Rep.)
- 1. Lucius Q.C. Lamar (Dem.) …resigned December 1860, seat not filled in this Congress..
- 2. Reuben Davis (Dem.) …seceded state, withdrew January 12, 1861.
- 3. William Barksdale (Dem.) …seceded state, withdrew January 12, 1861.
- 4. Otho R. Singleton (Dem.) …seceded state, withdrew January 12, 1861.
- 5. John J. McRae (Dem.) …seceded state, withdrew January 12, 1861.
- 1. John R. Barret (Dem.) …contested election, served until June 8, 1860, elected to fill vacancy, seated December 3, 1860.
- 2. Thomas L. Anderson (Independent Dem.)
- 3. John B. Clark (Dem.)
- 4. James Craig (Dem.)
- 5. Samuel H. Woodson (American)
- 6. John S. Phelps (Dem.)
- 7. John W. Noell (Dem.)
- 1. Gilman Marston (Rep.)
- 2. Mason W. Tappan (Rep.)
- 3. Thomas M. Edwards (Rep.)
- 1. John T. Nixon (Rep.)
- 2. John L.N. Stratton (Rep.)
- 3. Garnett B. Adrain (Anti-LeCompton Dem.)
- 4. Jetur R. Riggs (Anti-LeCompton Dem.)
- 5. William Pennington (Rep.)
- 1. Luther C. Carter (Rep.)
- 2. James Humphrey (Rep.)
- 3. Daniel E. Sickles (Dem.)
- 4. Thomas J. Barr (Independent Dem.)
- 5. William B. Maclay (Dem.)
- 6. John Cochrane (Dem.)
- 7. George Briggs (Rep.)
- 8. Horace F. Clark (Anti-LeCompton Dem.)
- 9. John B. Haskin (Anti-LeCompton Dem.)
- 10. Charles H. Van Wyck (Rep.)
- 11. William S. Kenyon (Rep.)
- 12. Charles L. Beale (Rep.)
- 13. Abram B. Olin (Rep.)
- 14. John H. Reynolds (Anti-LeCompton Dem.)
- 15. James B. McKean (Rep.)
- 16. George W. Palmer (Rep.)
- 17. Francis E. Spinner (Rep.)
- 18. Clark B. Cochrane (Rep.)
- 19. James H. Graham (Rep.)
- 20. Roscoe Conkling (Rep.)
- 21. R. Holland Duell (Rep.)
- 22. Moses L. Lee (Rep.)
- 23. Charles B. Hoard (Rep.)
- 24. Charles B. Sedgwick (Rep.)
- 25. Martin Butterfield (Rep.)
- 26. Emory B. Pottle (Rep.)
- 27. Alfred Wells (Rep.)
- 28. William Irvine (Rep.)
- 29. Alfred Ely (Rep.)
- 30. Augustus Frank (Rep.)
- 31. Silas M. Burroughs (Rep.) …died June 3, 1860.
- Edwin R. Reynolds (Rep.) …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 5, 1860.
- 32. Elbridge G. Spaulding (Rep.)
- 33. Reuben E. Fenton (Rep.)
- 1. William N.H. Smith (Independent)
- 2. Thomas H. Ruffin (Dem.)
- 3. Warren Winslow (Dem.)
- 4. Lawrence O. Branch (Dem.)
- 5. John A. Gilmer (Independent)
- 6. James M. Leach (Independent)
- 7. Francis B. Craige (Dem.)
- 8. Zebulon B. Vance (Independent)
- 1. George H. Pendleton (Dem.)
- 2. John A. Gurley (Rep.)
- 3. Clement L. Vallandigham (Dem.)
- 4. William Allen (Dem.)
- 5. James M. Ashley (Rep.)
- 6. William Howard (Dem.)
- 7. Thomas Corwin (Rep.)
- 8. Benjamin Stanton (Rep.)
- 9. John Carey (Rep.)
- 10. Carey A. Trimble (Rep.)
- 11. Charles D. Martin (Dem.)
- 12. Samuel S. Cox (Dem.)
- 13. John Sherman (Rep.)
- 14. Cyrus Spink (Rep.) …died May 31, 1859, before Congress assembled.
- Harrison G.O. Blake (Rep.) …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 5, 1859.
- 15. William Helmick (Rep.)
- 16. Cydnor B. Tompkins (Rep.)
- 17. Thomas C. Theaker (Rep.)
- 18. Sidney Edgerton (Rep.)
- 19. Edward Wade (Rep.)
- 20. John Hutchins (Rep.)
- 21. John A. Bingham (Rep.)
- 1. Thomas B. Florence (Dem.)
- 2. Edward J. Morris (Rep.)
- 3. John P. Verree (Rep.)
- 4. William Millward (Rep.)
- 5. John Wood (Rep.)
- 6. John Hickman (Anti-LeCompton Dem.)
- 7. Henry C. Longnecker (Rep.)
- 8. John Schwartz (Anti-LeCompton Dem.) …died June 20, 1860.
- Jacob K. McKenty (Dem.) …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 3, 1860.
- 9. Thaddeus Stevens (Rep.)
- 10. John W. Killinger (Rep.)
- 11. James H. Campbell (Rep.)
- 12. George W. Scranton (Rep.)
- 13. William H. Dimmick (Dem.)
- 14. Galusha A. Grow (Rep.)
- 15. James T. Hale (Rep.)
- 16. Benjamin F. Junkin (Rep.)
- 17. Edward McPherson (Rep.)
- 18. Samuel S. Blair (Rep.)
- 19. John Covode (Rep.)
- 20. William Montgomery (Dem.)
- 21. James K. Moorhead (Rep.)
- 22. Robert McKnight (Rep.)
- 23. William Stewart (Rep.)
- 24. Chapin Hall (Rep.)
- 25. Elijah Babbitt (Rep.)
- 1. John McQueen (Dem.) …seceded state, withdrew December 21, 1860.
- 2. William P. Miles (Dem.) …seceded state, did not occupy seat after December 13, 1860.
- 3. Laurence M. Keitt (Dem.) …seceded state, did not occupy seat after December 10, 1860.
- 4. Milledge L. Bonham (Dem.) …seceded state, withdrew December 21, 1860.
- 5. John D. Ashmore (Dem.) …seceded state, withdrew December 21, 1860.
- 6. William W. Boyce (Dem.) …seceded state, withdrew December 21, 1860.
- 1. Thomas A.R. Nelson (Independent)
- 2. Horace Maynard (Independent)
- 3. Reese B. Brabson (Independent)
- 4. William B. Stokes (Independent)
- 5. Robert H. Hatton (Independent)
- 6. James H. Thomas (Dem.)
- 7. John V. Wright (Dem.)
- 8. James M. Quarles (Independent)
- 9. Emerson Etheridge (Independent)
- 10. William T. Avery (Dem.)
- 1. Eliakim P. Walton (Rep.)
- 2. Justin S. Morrill (Rep.)
- 3. Homer E. Royce (Rep.)
- 1. Muscoe R.H. Garnett (Dem.)
- 2. John S. Millson (Dem.)
- 3. Daniel C. De Jarnette (Independent Dem.)
- 4. William Goode (Dem.) …died July 3, 1859.
- Roger A. Pryor (Dem.) …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 7, 1859.
- 5. Thomas S. Bocock (Dem.)
- 6. Shelton Leake (Independent Dem.)
- 7. William Smith (Dem.)
- 8. Alexander R. Boteler (Independent)
- 9. John T. Harris (Independent Dem.)
- 10. Sherrard Clemens (Dem.)
- 11. Albert G. Jenkins (Dem.)
- 12. Henry A. Edmundson (Dem.)
- 13. Elbert S. Martin (Independent Dem.)
- 1. John F. Potter (Rep.)
- 2. Cadwallader C. Washburn (Rep.) …resigned January 1, 1861.
- 3. Charles H. Larrabee (Dem.)
[edit] Delegates
- Kansas Territory
- A/L. Marcus J. Parrott (Rep.) ...newly admitted state, served until January 29, 1861.
- Nebraska Territory
- A/L. Samuel G. Daily (Rep.) …contested election, seated May 18, 1860.
- A/L. Experience Estabrook (undetermined)' …contested election, served until May 18, 1860.
- New Mexico Territory
- Utah Territory
- Washington Territory
[edit] Changes in membership
The count below reflects changes from the beginning of the first session of this Congress.
- See also: 36th United States Congress - Membership Changes
[edit] Senate
- replacements: 3
- Democratic: no net change
- Republican: no net change
- deaths: 1
- resignations: 1
- interim appointments: 1
- withdrawals: 13
- Total seats with changes: 18
[edit] House of Representatives
- replacements: 7
- Democratic: no net change
- Republican: 1 seat net loss
- Anti-Lecompton Democratic: 1 seat net gain
- deaths: 4
- resignations: 3
- contested election: 1
- withdrawals: 28
- Total seats with changes: 41
[edit] Officers
[edit] Senate
- Secretary of the Senate:
- Asbury Dickens of North Carolina elected December 12, 1836
- Sergeant at Arms of the Senate:
- Dunning R. McNair of Pennsylvania, elected March 17, 1853
- Chaplain of the Senate
- The Rev. Stephen P. Hill, Baptist, elected December 8, 1856
- The Rev. Phineas D. Gurley Presbyterian, elected December 15, 1859
[edit] House of Representatives
- Clerk of the House:
- James C. Allen of Illinois elected December 7, 1857, presided over election of Speaker.
- John W. Forney of Pennsylvania elected February 3, 1860
- Sergeant at Arms of the House:
- Henry W. Hoffman of Maryland, elected February 3, 1860
- Doorkeeper of the House:
- George Marston of New Hampshire, elected February 3, 1860
- Postmaster of the House:
- Josiah M. Lucas, elected February 3, 1860
- Messenger to the Speaker:
- Thaddeus Morrice
- Chaplain of the House
- The Rev. William H. Milburn Methodist, elected December 5, 1853
[edit] Other
- Architect of the Capitol:
- Thomas U. Walter, appointed June 11, 1851
[edit] Notes
- ^ all representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket
[edit] References
- Martis, Kenneth C. (1989). The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
- Martis, Kenneth C. (1982). The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
[edit] External links
- Statutes at Large, 1789-1875 [1]
- Senate Journal, First Forty-three Sessions of Congress [2]
- House Journal, First Forty-three Sessions of Congress [3]
- Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress [4]
- U.S. House of Representatives: Congressional History [5]
- U.S. Senate: Statistics and Lists [6]
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