24TH UNITED STATES CONGRESS

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The 'Twenty-fourth 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 1835 to March 3 1837, during the last two years of the second administration of U.S. President Andrew Jackson.
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 Jacksonian or Democratic majority.

Contents

Dates of sessions

Party summary

Leadership

Major events

Major legislation

Members

Senate

House of Representatives

Delegates

Changes in membership

Officers

Notes

References

External links

Dates of sessions

March 4 1835 - March 3 1837

★ First session: December 7 1835 - July 4 1836

★ Second session: December 5 1836 - March 3 1837 — a lame duck session
Previous congress: ''23rd Congress''

Next congress: ''25th Congress''

Party summary

Arkansas and Michigan were newly admitted to the Union and first represented as states in 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.

:'Senate' ★ Democratic '' (D) '': 26 ''(majority)'' ★ National Republican '' (NR) '': 24 ★ Nullifier '' (N) '': 2'TOTAL members: 52'

:'House of Representatives' ★ Democratic '' (D) '': 143 ''(majority)'' ★ National Republican '' (NR) '': 75 ★ Anti Masonic '' (AM) '': 16 ★ Nullifier '' (N) '': 8'TOTAL members: 242'

Leadership

:'Senate'

★ Vice President of the United States ''(President of the Senate)'':

★
★ Martin Van Buren, ''Democrat'' of New York

★ President ''pro tempore'' of the Senate:

★
★ William R. King, ''Democrat'' of Alabama, elected July 1 1836
:'House of Representatives'

★ Speaker of the House

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★ James K. Polk, ''Democrat'' of Tennessee, elected December 7 1835

Major events

:''Main article: Events of 1835; Events of 1836; Events of 1837''

Major legislation

:''Main article: List of United States federal legislation in the 24th Congress

★ April 20 1836 - Wisconsin Territory was formed from the Michigan Territory

★ June 15 1836 Arkansas was admitted as a state into the Union.

★ January 26 1837 Michigan was admitted as a state into the Union.

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: 24th United States Congress - political parties''
:''See also: 24th United States Congress - State Delegations''
:''See also: United States House elections, 1834''

Senate

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 1838; Class 2 meant their term began with this Congress, requiring reelection in 1840; and Class 3 meant their term ended with this Congress, requiring reelection in 1836.
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:'Alabama' ★ 2: William R. D. King ''(D)'' ★ 3: Gabriel Moore ''(NR)'' :'Arkansas' ★ 2: William S. Fulton ''(D)'' ★ 3: Ambrose H. Sevier ''(D)'' :'Connecticut' ★ 3: Gideon Tomlinson ''(NR)'' ★ 1: Nathan Smith ''(NR)'' ★ : John M. Niles ''(D)'' :'Delaware' ★ 2: John M. Clayton ''(NR)'' ★ : Thomas Clayton ''(NR)'' ★ 1: Arnold Naudain ''(NR)'' ★ : Richard H. Bayard ''(NR)'' :'Georgia' ★ 2: John P. King ''(D)'' ★ 3: Alfred Cuthbert ''(D)'' :'Illinois' ★ 3: Elias K. Kane ''(D)'' ★ : William L. D. Ewing ''(D)'' ★ 2: John M. Robinson ''(D)'' :'Indiana' ★ 3: William Hendricks ''(NR)'' ★ 1: John Tipton ''(D)'' :'Kentucky' ★ 3: Henry Clay ''(NR)'' ★ 2: John J. Crittenden ''(NR)''

:'Louisiana' ★ 3: Alexander Porter ''(NR)'' ★ : Alexander Mouton ''(D)'' ★ 2: Robert C. Nicholas ''(D)'' :'Maine' ★ 1: Ether Shepley ''(D)'' ★ : Judah Dana ''(D)'' ★ 2: John Ruggles ''(D)'' :'Maryland' ★ 3: Robert H. Goldsborough ''(NR)'' ★ : John S. Spence ''(NR)'' ★ 1: Joseph Kent ''(NR)'' :'Massachusetts' ★ 1: Daniel Webster ''(NR)'' ★ 2: John Davis ''(NR)'' :'Michigan' ★ 1: Lucius Lyon ''(D)'' ★ 2: John Norvell ''(D)'' :'Mississippi' ★ 1: John Black ''(NR)'' ★ 2: Robert J. Walker ''(D)'' :'Missouri' ★ 1: Thomas H. Benton ''(D)'' ★ 3: Lewis F. Linn ''(D)'' :'New Hampshire' ★ 3: Isaac Hill ''(D)'' ★ : John Page ''(D)'' ★ 2: Henry Hubbard ''(D)'' :'New Jersey' ★ 1: Samuel L. Southard ''(NR)'' ★ 2: Garret D. Wall ''(D)''

:'New York' ★ 3: Silas Wright, Jr. ''(D)'' ★ 1: Nathaniel P. Tallmadge ''(D)'' :'North Carolina' ★ 2: Bedford Brown ''(D)'' ★ 3: Willie P. Mangum ''(NR)'' ★ : Robert Strange ''(D)'' :'Ohio' ★ 3: Thomas Ewing ''(NR)'' ★ 1: Thomas Morris ''(D)'' :'Pennsylvania' ★ 1: Samuel McKean ''(D)'' ★ 3: James Buchanan ''(D)'' :'Rhode Island' ★ 2: Nehemiah R. Knight ''(NR)'' ★ 1: Asher Robbins ''(NR)'' :'South Carolina' ★ 2: John C. Calhoun ''(N)'' ★ 3: William C. Preston ''(N)'' :'Tennessee' ★ 2: Hugh Lawson White ''(NR)'' ★ 1: Felix Grundy ''(D)'' :'Vermont' ★ 3: Samuel Prentiss ''(NR)'' ★ 1: Benjamin Swift ''(NR)'' :'Virginia' ★ 1: John Tyler ''(NR)'' ★ : William C. Rives ''(D)'' ★ 2: Benjamin W. Leigh ''(NR)'' ★ : Richard E. Parker ''(D)''

President ''pro tempore'' William R. King

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.
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:'Alabama' ★ : Reuben Chapman ''(D)'' ★ : Joshua L. Martin ''(D)'' ★ : Joab Lawler ''(D)'' ★ : Dixon H. Lewis ''(N)'' ★ : Francis S. Lyon ''(NR)'' :'Arkansas' ★ : Archibald Yell ''(D)'' :'Connecticut' [1] ★ : Elisha Haley ''(D)'' ★ : Samuel Ingham ''(D)'' ★ : Andrew T. Judson ''(D)'' ★ : Orrin Holt ''(D)'' ★ : Lancelot Phelps ''(D)'' ★ : Isaac Toucey ''(D)'' ★ : Zalmon Wildman ''(D)'' ★ : Thomas T. Whittlesey ''(D)'' :'Delaware' ★ : John J. Milligan ''(NR)'' :'Georgia' [1] ★ : John E. Coffee ''(D)'' ★ : William C. Dawson ''(NR)'' ★ : Seaton Grantland ''(D)'' ★ : Charles E. Haynes ''(D)'' ★ : James M. Wayne ''(D)'' ★ : Jabez Y. Jackson ''(D)'' ★ : George W. Owens ''(D)'' ★ : John W. A. Sanford ''(D)'' ★ : Thomas Glascock ''(D)'' ★ : William Schley ''(D)'' ★ : Jesse F. Cleveland ''(D)'' ★ : James C. Terrell ''(D)'' ★ : Hopkins Holsey ''(D)'' ★ : George W. B. Towns ''(D)'' ★ : Julius C. Alford ''(NR)'' :'Illinois' ★ : John Reynolds ''(D)'' ★ : Zadok Casey ''(D)'' ★ : William L. May ''(D)'' :'Indiana' ★ : Ratliff Boon ''(D)'' ★ : John W. Davis ''(D)'' ★ : John Carr ''(D)'' ★ : Amos Lane ''(D)'' ★ : Jonathan McCarty ''(NR)'' ★ : George L. Kinnard ''(D)'' ★ : William Herod ''(NR)'' ★ : Edward A. Hannegan ''(D)'' :'Kentucky' ★ : Linn Boyd ''(D)'' ★ : Albert G. Hawes ''(D)'' ★ : Joseph R. Underwood ''(NR)'' ★ : Sherrod Williams ''(NR)'' ★ : James Harlan ''(NR)'' ★ : John Calhoon ''(NR)'' ★ : Benjamin Hardin ''(NR)'' ★ : William J. Graves ''(NR)'' ★ : John White ''(NR)'' ★ : Chilton Allan ''(NR)'' ★ : Richard French ''(D)'' ★ : John Chambers ''(NR)'' ★ : Richard M. Johnson ''(D)'' :'Louisiana' ★ : Henry Johnson ''(NR)'' ★ : Eleazar W. Ripley ''(D)'' ★ : Rice Garland ''(NR)'' :'Maine' ★ : John Fairfield ''(D)'' ★ : Francis O. J. Smith ''(D)'' ★ : Jeremiah Bailey ''(NR)'' ★ : George Evans ''(NR)'' ★ : Moses Mason, Jr. ''(D)'' ★ : Joseph Hall ''(D)'' ★ : Leonard Jarvis ''(D)'' ★ : Gorham Parks ''(D)'' :'Maryland' [3] ★ : John N. Steele ''(NR)'' ★ : James A. Pearce ''(NR)'' ★ : James Turner ''(D)'' ★ : Benjamin C. Howard ''(D)'' ★ : Isaac McKim ''(D)'' ★ : George C. Washington ''(NR)'' ★ : Francis Thomas ''(D)'' ★ : Daniel Jenifer ''(NR)'' :'Massachusetts' ★ : Abbott Lawrence ''(NR)'' ★ : Stephen C. Phillips ''(NR)'' ★ : Caleb Cushing ''(NR)'' ★ : Samuel Hoar ''(NR)'' ★ : Levi Lincoln, Jr. ''(NR)'' ★ : George J. Grennell, Jr. ''(NR)'' ★ : George N. Briggs ''(NR)'' ★ : William B. Calhoun ''(NR)'' ★ : William Jackson ''(AM)'' ★ : Nathaniel B. Borden ''(D)'' ★ : John Reed, Jr. ''(AM)'' ★ : John Quincy Adams ''(AM)''

:'Michigan' ★ : Isaac E. Crary ''(D)'' :'Mississippi' [4] ★ : John F. H. Claiborne ''(D)'' ★ : David Dickson ''(NR)'' ★ : Samuel J. Gholson ''(D)'' :'Missouri' [4] ★ : William H. Ashley ''(NR)'' ★ : Albert G. Harrison ''(D)'' :'New Hampshire' [1] ★ : Benning M. Bean ''(D)'' ★ : Robert Burns ''(D)'' ★ : Samuel Cushman ''(D)'' ★ : Franklin Pierce ''(D)'' ★ : Joseph Weeks ''(D)'' :'New Jersey' [1] ★ : Philemon Dickerson ''(D)'' ★ : William Chetwood ''(NR)'' ★ : Samuel Fowler ''(D)'' ★ : Thomas Lee ''(D)'' ★ : James Parker ''(D)'' ★ : Ferdinand Schureman Schenck‎ ''(D)'' ★ : William N. Shinn ''(D)'' :'New York' [8] ★ : Abel Huntington ''(D)'' ★ : Samuel Barton ''(D)'' ★ : Churchill C. Cambreleng ''(D)'' ★ : Campbell P. White ''(D)'' ★ : Gideon Lee ''(D)'' ★ : John McKeon ''(D)'' ★ : Ely Moore ''(D)'' ★ : Aaron Ward ''(D)'' ★ : Abraham Bockee ''(D)'' ★ : John W. Brown ''(D)'' ★ : Nicholas Sickles ''(D)'' ★ : Valentine Efner ''(D)'' ★ : Aaron Vanderpoel ''(D)'' ★ : Hiram P. Hunt ''(NR)'' ★ : Gerrit Y. Lansing ''(D)'' ★ : John Cramer ''(D)'' ★ : David A. Russell ''(NR)'' ★ : Dudley Farlin ''(D)'' ★ : Ransom H. Gillet ''(D)'' ★ : Matthias J. Bovee ''(D)'' ★ : Abijah Mann, Jr. ''(D)'' ★ : Samuel Beardsley ''(D)'' ★ : Rutger B. Miller ''(D)'' ★ : Joel Turrill ''(D)'' ★ : Daniel Wardwell ''(D)'' ★ : Sherman Page ''(D)'' ★ : William Seymour ''(D)'' ★ : William Mason ''(D)'' ★ : Stephen B. Leonard ''(D)'' ★ : Joseph Reynolds ''(D)'' ★ : William K. Fuller ''(D)'' ★ : William Taylor ''(D)'' ★ : Ulysses F. Doubleday ''(D)'' ★ : Graham H. Chapin ''(D)'' ★ : Francis Granger ''(NR)'' ★ : Joshua Lee ''(D)'' ★ : Timothy Childs ''(NR)'' ★ : George W. Lay ''(NR)'' ★ : Philo C. Fuller ''(NR)'' ★ : John Young ''(NR)'' ★ : Abner Hazeltine ''(NR)'' ★ : Thomas C. Love ''(NR)'' ★ : Gideon Hard ''(NR)'' :'North Carolina' ★ : William B. Shepard ''(NR)'' ★ : Jesse A. Bynum ''(D)'' ★ : Ebenezer Pettigrew ''(NR)'' ★ : Jesse Speight ''(D)'' ★ : James I. McKay ''(D)'' ★ : Micajah T. Hawkins ''(D)'' ★ : Edmund Deberry ''(NR)'' ★ : William Montgomery ''(D)'' ★ : Augustine H. Shepperd ''(NR)'' ★ : Abraham Rencher ''(NR)'' ★ : Henry W. Connor ''(D)'' ★ : James Graham ''(NR)'' ★ : Lewis Williams ''(NR)'' :'Ohio' ★ : Bellamy Storer ''(NR)'' ★ : Taylor Webster ''(D)'' ★ : Joseph H. Crane ''(NR)'' ★ : Thomas Corwin ''(NR)'' ★ : Thomas L. Hamer ''(D)'' ★ : Samuel F. Vinton ''(NR)'' ★ : William K. Bond ''(NR)'' ★ : Jeremiah McLene ''(D)'' ★ : John Chaney ''(D)'' ★ : Samson Mason ''(NR)'' ★ : William Kennon, Sr. ''(D)'' ★ : Elias Howell ''(NR)'' ★ : David Spangler ''(NR)'' ★ : William Patterson ''(D)'' ★ : Jonathan Sloane ''(AM)'' ★ : Elisha Whittlesey ''(NR)'' ★ : John Thomson ''(D)'' ★ : Benjamin Jones ''(D)'' ★ : Daniel Kilgore ''(D)''

:'Pennsylvania' [9] ★ : Joel B. Sutherland ''(D)'' ★ : James Harper ''(NR)'' ★ : Joseph R. Ingersoll ''(NR)'' ★ : Michael W. Ash ''(D)'' ★ : Edward Darlington ''(AM)'' ★ : William Hiester ''(AM)'' ★ : David Potts, Jr. ''(AM)'' ★ : Jacob Fry, Jr. ''(D)'' ★ : Mathias Morris ''(NR)'' ★ : David D. Wagener ''(D)'' ★ : Edward B. Hubley ''(D)'' ★ : Henry A. P. Muhlenberg ''(D)'' ★ : William Clark ''(AM)'' ★ : Henry Logan ''(D)'' ★ : George Chambers ''(AM)'' ★ : Jesse Miller ''(D)'' ★ : James Black ''(D)'' ★ : Joseph Henderson ''(D)'' ★ : Andrew Beaumont ''(D)'' ★ : Joseph B. Anthony ''(D)'' ★ : John Laporte ''(D)'' ★ : Job Mann ''(D)'' ★ : John J. Klingensmith, Jr. ''(D)'' ★ : Andrew Buchanan ''(D)'' ★ : Thomas M. T. McKennan ''(AM)'' ★ : Harmar Denny ''(AM)'' ★ : Samuel S. Harrison ''(D)'' ★ : John Banks ''(AM)'' ★ : John J. Pearson ''(NR)'' ★ : John Galbraith ''(D)'' :'Rhode Island' [4] ★ : Dutee J. Pearce ''(AM)'' ★ : William Sprague ''(AM)'' :'South Carolina' ★ : Henry L. Pinckney ''(N)'' ★ : William J. Grayson ''(N)'' ★ : Robert B. Campbell ''(N)'' ★ : James H. Hammond ''(N)'' ★ : Franklin H. Elmore ''(N)'' ★ : Francis W. Pickens ''(N)'' ★ : Warren R. Davis ''(N)'' ★ : Waddy Thompson, Jr. ''(NR)'' ★ : James Rogers ''(D)'' ★ : Richard I. Manning ''(D)'' ★ : John P. Richardson ''(D)'' ★ : John K. Griffin ''(N)'' :'Tennessee' ★ : William B. Carter ''(NR)'' ★ : Samuel Bunch ''(NR)'' ★ : Luke Lea ''(NR)'' ★ : James I. Standifer ''(NR)'' ★ : John B. Forester ''(NR)'' ★ : Balie Peyton ''(NR)'' ★ : John Bell ''(NR)'' ★ : Abram P. Maury ''(NR)'' ★ : James K. Polk ''(D)'' ★ : Ebenezer J. Shields ''(NR)'' ★ : Cave Johnson ''(D)'' ★ : Adam Huntsman ''(D)'' ★ : William C. Dunlap ''(D)'' :'Vermont' ★ : Hiland Hall ''(NR)'' ★ : William Slade ''(AM)'' ★ : Horace Everett ''(NR)'' ★ : Heman Allen ''(NR)'' ★ : Henry F. Janes ''(AM)'' :'Virginia' ★ : George Loyall ''(D)'' ★ : John Y. Mason ''(D)'' ★ : John W. Jones ''(D)'' ★ : George C. Dromgoole ''(D)'' ★ : James W. Bouldin ''(D)'' ★ : Walter Coles ''(D)'' ★ : Nathaniel H. Claiborne ''(NR)'' ★ : Henry A. Wise ''(D)'' ★ : John Roane ''(D)'' ★ : John Taliaferro ''(NR)'' ★ : John Robertson ''(NR)'' ★ : James Garland ''(D)'' ★ : John M. Patton ''(D)'' ★ : Charles F. Mercer ''(NR)'' ★ : Edward Lucas ''(D)'' ★ : James M. H. Beale ''(D)'' ★ : Robert Craig ''(D)'' ★ : George W. Hopkins ''(D)'' ★ : William McComas ''(NR)'' ★ : Joseph Johnson ''(D)'' ★ : William S. Morgan ''(D)''

Speaker of the House James K. Polk Delegates :'Arkansas Territory' ★ : Ambrose H. Sevier ''(D)'' :'Florida Territory' ★ : Joseph M. White :'Michigan Territory' ★ : George W. Jones ''(D)'':'Wisconsin Territory' ★ : George W. Jones ''(D)''

Changes in membership

The count below reflects changes from the beginning of the first session of this Congress.
:''See also: 24th United States Congress - Membership Changes''

:'Senate' ★ replacements: 11 ★ ★ Democrats '' (D) '': 5 seat net gain ★ ★ National Republicans '' (NR) '': 5 seat net loss ★ deaths: 3 ★ resignations: 8 ★ interim appointments: 0 ★ 'Total seats with changes: 16'

:'House of Representatives' ★ replacements: 14 ★ ★ Democrats '' (D) '': 3 seat net loss ★ ★ National Republicans '' (NR) '': 5 seat net gain ★ ★ Anti Masonics '' (AM) '': 1 seat net loss ★ ★ Nullifiers '' (N) '': 1 seat net loss ★ deaths: 6 ★ resignations: 14 ★ contested election: 0 ★ 'Total seats with changes: 23'

Officers

:'Senate' ★ Secretary of the Senate: ★ ★ Walter Lowrie of Pennsylvania elected December 12 1825 ★ ★ Asbury Dickens of North Carolina elected December 12 1836 ★ Sergeant at Arms of the Senate: ★ ★ John Shackford of New Hampshire, elected December 9 1833 ★ Chaplain of the Senate ★ ★ The Rev. Edward Y. Higbee, ''''Episcopalian'''', elected December 23 1835 ★ ★ The Rev. John R. Goodman, ''''Episcopalian'''', elected December 28 1836

:'House of Representatives' ★ Clerk of the House: ★ ★ Walter S. Franklin of Pennsylvania, elected December 7 1835 ★ Sergeant at Arms of the House: ★ ★ Roderick Dorsey of Maryland, elected December 15 1835 ★ Doorkeeper of the House: ★ ★ Overton Carr of Maryland, elected December 15 1835 ★ Postmaster of the House: ★ ★ William J. McCormick ★ Chaplain of the House ★ ★ The Rev. Thomas H. Stockton, ''Methodist'', elected December 7 1835 ★ ★ The Rev. Oliver C. Comstock, ''Baptist'', elected December 5 1836

Notes

1. All representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket.
2. All representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket.
3. The 4th district was a plural district with two representatives.
4. Both representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket.
5. Both representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket.
6. All representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket.
7. All representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket.
8. There were four plural districts, the 8th, 17th, 22nd & 23rd had two representatives each, the 3rd had four representatives.
9. There were two plural districts, the 2nd had two representatives, the 4th had three representatives.
10. Both representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket.

References

★ The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress, , Kenneth C., Martis, Macmillan Publishing Company, 1989,

★ The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts, , Kenneth C., Martis, Macmillan Publishing Company, 1982,

External links

★ Statutes at Large, 1789-1875

★ Senate Journal, First Forty-three Sessions of Congress

★ House Journal, First Forty-three Sessions of Congress

★ Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress

★ U.S. House of Representatives: House History

★ U.S. Senate: Statistics and Lists