PROVISIONAL CONFEDERATE CONGRESS

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The 'Provisional Confederate Congress', for a time the legislative branch of the Confederate States of America, was the body which drafted the Confederate Constitution, elected Jefferson Davis President of the Confederacy, and designed the first Confederate flag. Unlike the later bicameral Confederate Congress, the Provisional Congress consisted of only one house and its members were referred to as deputies and delegates.

Contents

Sessions

Leadership

Members

Deputies

Delegates

See also

Sessions

★ First Session 4 February 1861 - 16 March 1861 in Montgomery, Alabama

★ Second Session 29 April 1861 - 21 May 1861 in Montgomery, Alabama

★ Third Session 20 July 1861 - 31 August 1861 in Richmond, Virginia

★ Fourth Session 3 September 1861 (''called'') in Richmond, Virginia

★ Fifth Session 18 November 1861 - 17 February 1862 in Richmond, Virginia

Leadership

'President of the Provisional Congress'

★ Howell Cobb, Sr. of Georgia - 4 February, 1861-17 February, 1862
'President pro tempore'

★ Robert Woodward Barnwell of South Carolina - February 4, 1861

★ Thomas Stanhope Bocock of Virginia - December 10-21, 1861 and January 7-8, 1862

★ Josiah Abigail Patterson Campbell of Mississippi - December 23-24, 1861 and January 6, 1862

Members

Deputies

Deputies from the first seven states to secede formed the first two sessions of the Congress.
'Alabama'

★ William Parish Chilton, Sr.

★ Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry

★ Thomas Fearn (''resigned'' 16 March 1861 ''after first Session'')

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★ Nicholas Davis, Jr. (''took his seat on'' 29 April 1861 - ''Elected to fill vacancy'')

★ Stephen Fowler Hale

★ David Peter Lewis (''resigned'' 16 March 1861 ''after first Session'')

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★ Henry Cox Jones (''took his seat on'' 29 April 1861 - ''Elected to fill vacancy'')

★ Colin John McRae

★ John Gill Shorter (''resigned'' November 1861)

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★ Cornelius Robinson (''took his seat on'' 29 April 1861 - ''Elected to fill vacancy; resigned'' 24 January 1862)

★ Robert Hardy Smith

★ Richard Wilde Walker
'Florida'

★ James Patton Anderson (''resigned'' 8 April 1861)

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★ George Taliaferro Ward (''took his seat on '' 2 May 1861 - ''Elected to fill vacancy; resigned ''5 February 1862)

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★ John Pease Sanderson (''took his seat on '' 5 February 1862 - ''Appointed to fill vacancy'')

★ Jackson Morton

★ James Byeram Owens
'Georgia'

★ Francis Stebbins Bartow (''killed'' 21 July 1861 ''at the First Battle of Bull Run'')

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★ Thomas Marsh Forman (''took his seat on'' 7 August 1861 - ''Appointed to fill vacancy'')

★ Howell Cobb, Sr.

★ Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb

★ Martin Jenkins Crawford

★ Benjamin Harvey Hill

★ Augustus Holmes Kenan

★ Eugenius Aristides Nisbet (''resigned'' 10 December 1861)

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★ Nathan Henry Bass, Sr. (''took his seat on'' 14 January 1862 - ''Appointed to fill vacancy'')

★ Alexander Hamilton Stephens

★ Robert Augustus Toombs

★ Augustus Romaldus Wright
'Louisiana'

★ Charles Magill Conrad

★ Alexandre Etienne DeClouet

★ Duncan Farrar Kenner

★ Henry Marshall

★ John Perkins, Jr.

★ Edward Sparrow
'Mississippi'

★ William Taylor Sullivan Barry

★ Walker Brooke

★ Josiah Abigail Patterson Campbell

★ Alexander Mosby Clayton (''resigned'' 11 May 1861)

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★ Alexander Blackburn Bradford (''took his seat on'' 5 December 1861 - ''Elected to fill vacancy'')

★ Wiley Pope Harris

★ James Thomas Harrison

★ William Sydney Wilson (''resigned'' 16 March 1861 ''after first session'')

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★ Jehu Amaziah Orr (''took his seat on'' 29 April 1861 - ''Elected to fill vacancy'')
'South Carolina'

★ Robert Woodward Barnwell

★ William Waters Boyce

★ James Chesnut, Jr.

★ Laurence Massillon Keitt

★ Christopher Gustavus Memminger

★ William Porcher Miles

★ Robert Barnwell Rhett, Sr.

★ Thomas Jefferson Withers (''resigned'' 21 May 1861 ''after second session'')

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★ James Lawrence Orr (''took his seat on'' 17 February 1862 - ''Appointed to fill vacancy'')
'Texas'

★ John Gregg

★ John Hemphill (''died'' 4 January 1862)

★ William Beck Ochiltree, Sr.

★ Williamson Simpson Oldham, Sr.

★ John Henninger Reagan

★ Thomas Neville Waul

★ Louis Trezevant Wigfall

Delegates

Representatives from states to secede after the Battle of Fort Sumter were referred to as delegates, in contrast to the deputies from the original seven states.
'Arkansas'

★ Augustus Hill Garland

★ Robert Ward Johnson

★ Albert Rust

★ Hugh French Thomason

★ William Wirt Watkins
'Kentucky'

★ Henry Cornelius Burnett

★ Theodore Legrand Burnett

★ John Milton Elliott

★ George Washington Ewing

★ Samuel Howard Ford

★ George Baird Hodge

★ Thomas Johnson

★ Thomas Bell Monroe

★ John J. Thomas

★ Daniel Price White
'Missouri'

★ Caspar Wistar Bell

★ John Bullock Clark, Sr.

★ Aaron H. Conrow

★ William Mordecai Cooke, Sr.

★ Thomas W. Freeman

★ Thomas Alexander Harris

★ Robert Ludwell Yates Peyton

★ George Graham Vest
'North Carolina'

★ William Waightstill Avery

★ Francis Burton Craige

★ Allen Turner Davidson

★ George Davis

★ Thomas David Smith McDowell

★ John Motley Morehead

★ Richard Clauselle Puryear

★ Thomas Ruffin

★ William Nathan Harrell Smith

★ Abraham Watkins Venable
'Tennessee'

★ John DeWitt Clinton Atkins

★ Robert Looney Caruthers

★ David Maney Currin

★ William Henry DeWitt

★ John Ford House

★ Thomas McKissick Jones

★ James Houston Thomas
'Virginia'

★ Thomas Stanley Bocock

★ Alexander Boteler

★ John White Brockenbrough

★ Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter

★ Robert Johnston

★ William Hamtilon MacFarland

★ James Murray Mason, Sr.

★ Walter Preston

★ William Ballard Preston

★ Roger Atkinson Pryor, Sr.

★ William Cabell Rives

★ Charles Wells Russell

★ Robert Eden Scott

★ James Alexander Seddon

★ Waller Redd Staples

★ John Tyler (''died'' 18 January 1862)
'Arizona Territory'

★ Granville Henderson Oury

See also

★ First Confederate Congress

★ Second Confederate Congress