13TH UNITED STATES CONGRESS

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The 'Thirteenth 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 1813 to March 3 1815, during the first two years of the second administration of U.S. President James Madison.
The apportionment of seats in this House of Representatives was based on the Third Census of the United States in 1810. Both chambers had a Democratic-Republican 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 1813 - March 3 1815

★ First session: May 24 1813 - August 2 1813

★ Second session: December 6 1813 - April 18 1814

★ Third session: September 19 1814 - March 3 1815 — a lame duck session
Previous congress: ''12th Congress''

Next congress: ''14th Congress''

Party summary


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-Republican '' (DR) '': 28 ''(majority)''
★ Federalist ''(F)'': 8'TOTAL members: 36'		:'House of Representatives'
★ Democratic-Republican '' (DR) '': 114 ''(majority)''
★ Federalist ''(F)'': 68'TOTAL members: 182'

Leadership


President of the Senate
Vice President
Elbridge Gerry

:'Senate'

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

★
★ Elbridge Gerry, ''Democratic-Republican'' of Massachusetts, died November 23 1814, thereafter vacant.

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

★
★ Joseph B. Varnum, ''Democratic-Republican'' of Massachusetts, elected December 6 1813

★
★ John Gaillard, ''Democratic-Republican'' of South Carolina, first elected April 18 1814
:'House of Representatives'

★ Speaker of the House

★
★ Henry Clay, ''Democratic-Republican'' of Kentucky, elected May 24 1813

Major events


:''Main article: Events of 1813; Events of 1814; Events of 1815''

★ October 5 1813 – War of 1812, the Battle of the Thames took place.

★ September 10 1814 – War of 1812, the Battle of Lake Erie took place.

★ March 27 1814 – Creek War, the Battle of Horseshoe Bend took place.

★ July 25 1814 – War of 1812, the Battle of Lundy's Lane took place.

★ August 25 1814 – War of 1812, the Burning of Washington took place.

★ September 11 1814 – War of 1812, the Battle of Lake Champlain took place.

★ September 13 1814 – War of 1812, the bombardment of Fort McHenry at Baltimore

★ November 7 1814 – War of 1812 Andrew Jackson seizes Pensacola

★ December 15 1814 – Hartford Convention convened.

★ December 24 1814 – War of 1812 Treaty of Ghent was signed.

★ January 8 1815 – War of 1812, at the Battle of New Orleans Andrew Jackson defeated British General Edward Pakenham

Major legislation


:''Main article: List of United States federal legislation in the 13th Congress

★ February 17 1815 – War of 1812 United States ratified the Treaty of Ghent

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: 13th United States Congress - political parties''
:''See also: 13th United States Congress - State Delegations''
:''See also: United States House elections, 1812''
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 ended with this Congress, requiring reelection in 1814; Class 2 meant their term began in the last Congress, requiring reelection in 1816; and Class 3 meant their term began in this Congress, requiring reelection in 1818.
:''See also:
:''See also:
:'Connecticut'
★ 3: Chauncey Goodrich ''(F)''
★ : David Daggett ''(F)''
★ 1: Samuel W. Dana ''(F)'' :'Delaware'
★ 1: Outerbridge Horsey ''(F)''
★ 2: William H. Wells ''(F)'' :'Georgia'
★ 2: William H. Crawford ''(DR)''
★ : William B. Bulloch ''(DR)''
★ : William W. Bibb ''(DR)''
★ 3: Charles Tait ''(DR)'' :'Kentucky'
★ 2: George M. Bibb ''(DR)''
★ : George Walker ''(DR)''
★ : William T. Barry ''(DR)''
★ 3: Jesse Bledsoe ''(DR)''
★ : Isham Talbot ''(DR)'' :'Louisiana'
★ 2: James Brown ''(DR)''
★ 3: Eligius Fromentin ''(DR)'' :'Maryland'
★ 1: Samuel Smith ''(DR)''
★ 3: Robert H. Goldsborough ''(F)''		:'Massachusetts'
★ 1: James Lloyd ''(F)''
★ : Christopher Gore ''(F)''
★ 2: Joseph Bradley Varnum ''(DR)'' :'New Hampshire'
★ 2: Nicholas Gilman ''(DR)''
★ : Thomas W. Thompson ''(F)''
★ 3: Charles Cutts ''(DR)''
★ : Jeremiah Mason ''(F)'' :'New Jersey'
★ 1: John Lambert ''(DR)''
★ 2: John Condit ''(DR)'' :'New York'
★ 1: Obadiah German ''(DR)''
★ 3: Rufus King ''(F)'' :'North Carolina'
★ 2: James Turner ''(DR)''
★ 3: David Stone ''(DR)''
★ : Francis Locke ''(DR)'' :'Ohio'
★ 1: Thomas Worthington ''(DR)''
★ : Joseph Kerr ''(DR)''
★ 3: Jeremiah Morrow ''(DR)''		:'Pennsylvania'
★ 1: Michael Leib ''(DR)''
★ : Jonathan Roberts ''(DR)''
★ 3: Abner Lacock ''(DR)'' :'Rhode Island'
★ 2: Jeremiah B. Howell ''(DR)''
★ 1: William Hunter ''(F)'' :'South Carolina'
★ 3: John Gaillard ''(DR)''
★ 2: John Taylor ''(DR)'' :'Tennessee'
★ 1: Joseph Anderson ''(DR)''
★ 2: George W. Campbell ''(DR)''
★ : Jesse Wharton ''(DR)'' :'Vermont'
★ 1: Jonathan Robinson ''(DR)''
★ 3: Dudley Chase ''(DR)'' :'Virginia'
★ 2: William B. Giles ''(DR)''
★ 1: Richard Brent ''(DR)''
★ : James Barbour ''(DR)''
President ''pro tempore''
Joseph B. Varnum
President ''pro tempore''
John Gaillard

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.
:''See also:
:''See also:
:'Connecticut' [1]
★ : Epaphroditus Champion ''(F)''
★ : John Davenport ''(F)''
★ : Lyman Law ''(F)''
★ : Jonathan O. Moseley ''(F)''
★ : Timothy Pitkin ''(F)''
★ : Lewis B. Sturges ''(F)''
★ : Benjamin Tallmadge ''(F)'' :'Delaware' [2]
★ : Thomas Cooper ''(F)''
★ : Henry M. Ridgely ''(F)'' :'Georgia' [1]
★ : William Barnett ''(DR)''
★ : William W. Bibb ''(DR)''
★ : Alfred Cuthbert ''(DR)''
★ : John Forsyth ''(DR)''
★ : Bolling Hall ''(DR)''
★ : Thomas Telfair ''(DR)''
★ : George M. Troup ''(DR)'' :'Kentucky'
★ : James Clark ''(DR)''
★ : Henry Clay ''(DR)''
★ : Joseph H. Hawkins ''(DR)''
★ : Richard M. Johnson ''(DR)''
★ : Joseph Desha ''(DR)''
★ : Samuel Hopkins ''(DR)''
★ : Solomon P. Sharp ''(DR)''
★ : Samuel McKee ''(DR)''
★ : Stephen Ormsby ''(DR)''
★ : Thomas Montgomery ''(DR)''
★ : William P. Duval ''(DR)'' :'Louisiana'
★ : Thomas B. Robertson ''(DR)'' :'Maryland' [4]
★ : Philip Stuart ''(F)''
★ : Joseph Kent ''(DR)''
★ : Alexander C. Hanson ''(F)''
★ : Samuel Ringgold ''(DR)''
★ : Alexander McKim ''(DR)''
★ : Nicholas R. Moore ''(DR)''
★ : Stevenson Archer ''(DR)''
★ : Robert Wright ''(DR)''
★ : Charles Goldsborough ''(F)'' :'Massachusetts'
★ : Artemas Ward, Jr. ''(F)''
★ : William Reed ''(F)''
★ : Timothy Pickering ''(F)''
★ : William M. Richardson ''(DR)''
★ : Samuel Dana ''(DR)''
★ : William Ely ''(F)''
★ : Samuel Taggart ''(F)''
★ : William Baylies ''(F)''
★ : John Reed, Jr. ''(F)''
★ : Laban Wheaton ''(F)''
★ : Elijah Brigham ''(F)''
★ : Abijah Bigelow ''(F)''
★ : Daniel Dewey ''(F)''
★ : John W. Hulbert ''(F)''
★ : Nathaniel Ruggles ''(F)''
★ : Cyrus King ''(F)''
★ : George Bradbury ''(F)''
★ : Samuel Davis ''(F)''
★ : Abiel Wood ''(DR)''
★ : John Wilson ''(F)''
★ : James Parker ''(DR)''
★ : Levi Hubbard ''(DR)''		:'New Hampshire' [1]
★ : Bradbury Cilley ''(F)''
★ : William Hale ''(F)''
★ : Samuel Smith ''(F)''
★ : Roger Vose ''(F)''
★ : Daniel Webster ''(F)''
★ : Jeduthun Wilcox ''(F)'' :'New Jersey' [6]
★ : Lewis Condict ''(DR)''
★ : Thomas Ward ''(DR)''
★ : James Schureman ''(F)''
★ : Richard Stockton ''(F)''
★ : William Coxe, Jr. ''(F)''
★ : Jacob Hufty ''(F)''
★ : Thomas Bines ''(DR)'' :'New York' [7]
★ : John Lefferts ''(DR)''
★ : Ebenezer Sage ''(DR)''
★ : Egbert Benson ''(F)''
★ : William Irving ''(DR)''
★ : Jotham Post, Jr. ''(F)''
★ : Peter Denoyelles ''(DR)''
★ : Thomas J. Oakley ''(F)''
★ : Thomas P. Grosvenor ''(F)''
★ : Jonathan Fisk ''(DR)''
★ : Abraham J. Hasbrouck ''(DR)''
★ : Samuel Sherwood ''(F)''
★ : John Lovett ''(F)''
★ : Hosea Moffitt ''(F)''
★ : John W. Taylor ''(DR)''
★ : Zebulon R. Shipherd ''(F)''
★ : Elisha I. Winter ''(F)''
★ : Alexander Boyd ''(F)''
★ : Jacob Markell ''(F)''
★ : John M. Bowers ''(F)''
★ : Isaac Williams, Jr. ''(DR)''
★ : Joel Thompson ''(F)''
★ : Morris S. Miller ''(F)''
★ : William S. Smith ''(F)''
★ : Moss Kent ''(F)''
★ : James Geddes ''(F)''
★ : Daniel Avery ''(DR)''
★ : Oliver C. Comstock ''(DR)''
★ : Samuel M. Hopkins ''(F)''
★ : Nathaniel W. Howell ''(F)'' :'North Carolina'
★ : William H. Murfree ''(DR)''
★ : Willis Alston ''(DR)''
★ : William Kennedy ''(DR)''
★ : William Gaston ''(F)''
★ : William R. King ''(DR)''
★ : Nathaniel Macon ''(DR)''
★ : John Culpepper ''(F)''
★ : Richard Stanford ''(DR)''
★ : Bartlett Yancey ''(DR)''
★ : Joseph Pearson ''(F)''
★ : Peter Forney ''(DR)''
★ : Israel Pickens ''(DR)''
★ : Meshack Franklin ''(DR)'' :'Ohio'
★ : John McLean ''(DR)''
★ : John Alexander ''(DR)''
★ : Duncan McArthur ''(DR)''
★ : William Creighton, Jr. ''(DR)''
★ : James Caldwell ''(DR)''
★ : James Kilbourne ''(DR)''
★ : Reasin Beall ''(DR)''
★ : David Clendenin ''(DR)''		:'Pennsylvania' [8]
★ : William Anderson ''(DR)''
★ : John Conard ''(DR)''
★ : Charles J. Ingersoll ''(DR)''
★ : Adam Seybert ''(DR)''
★ : Roger Davis ''(DR)''
★ : Jonathan Roberts ''(DR)''
★ : Samuel Henderson ''(F)''
★ : John Gloninger ''(F)''
★ : Edward Crouch ''(DR)''
★ : James Whitehill ''(DR)''
★ : Amos Slaymaker ''(F)''
★ : Hugh Glasgow ''(DR)''
★ : William Crawford ''(DR)''
★ : Robert Whitehill ''(DR)''
★ : John Rea ''(DR)''
★ : Robert Brown ''(DR)''
★ : Samuel D. Ingham ''(DR)''
★ : John M. Hyneman ''(DR)''
★ : Daniel Udree ''(DR)''
★ : William Piper ''(DR)''
★ : David Bard ''(DR)''
★ : Jared Irwin ''(DR)''
★ : Isaac Smith ''(DR)''
★ : William Findley ''(DR)''
★ : Aaron Lyle ''(DR)''
★ : Isaac Griffin ''(DR)''
★ : Adamson Tannehill ''(DR)''
★ : Thomas Wilson ''(DR)'' :'Rhode Island' [2]
★ : Richard Jackson, Jr. ''(F)''
★ : Elisha R. Potter ''(F)'' :'South Carolina'
★ : Langdon Cheves ''(DR)''
★ : William Lowndes ''(DR)''
★ : Theodore Gourdin ''(DR)''
★ : John J. Chappell ''(DR)''
★ : David R. Evans ''(DR)''
★ : John C. Calhoun ''(DR)''
★ : Elias Earle ''(DR)''
★ : Samuel Farrow ''(DR)''
★ : John Kershaw ''(DR)'' :'Tennessee'
★ : John Rhea ''(DR)''
★ : John Sevier ''(DR)''
★ : Thomas K. Harris ''(DR)''
★ : John H. Bowen ''(DR)''
★ : Felix Grundy ''(DR)''
★ : Newton Cannon ''(DR)''
★ : Parry W. Humphreys ''(DR)'' :'Vermont' [1]
★ : William C. Bradley ''(DR)''
★ : Ezra Butler ''(DR)''
★ : James Fisk ''(DR)''
★ : Charles Rich ''(DR)''
★ : Richard Skinner ''(DR)''
★ : William Strong ''(DR)'' :'Virginia'
★ : John G. Jackson ''(DR)''
★ : Francis White ''(F)''
★ : John Smith ''(DR)''
★ : William McCoy ''(DR)
★ : James Breckinridge ''(F)''
★ : Daniel Sheffey ''(F)''
★ : Hugh Caperton ''(F)''
★ : Joseph Lewis, Jr. ''(F)''
★ : John P. Hungerford ''(DR)''
★ : Aylett Hawes ''(DR)''
★ : John Dawson ''(DR)''
★ : Philip P. Barbour ''(DR)''
★ : John Roane ''(DR)''
★ : Thomas M. Bayly ''(F)''
★ : William A. Burwell ''(DR)''
★ : John Kerr ''(DR)''
★ : John W. Eppes ''(DR)''
★ : James Pleasants ''(DR)''
★ : Thomas Gholson, Jr. ''(DR)''
★ : Peterson Goodwyn ''(DR)''
★ : James Johnson ''(DR)''
★ : Thomas Newton, Jr. ''(DR)''
★ : Hugh Nelson ''(DR)''
★ : John Clopton ''(DR)''
Speaker of the House
Henry Clay
Delegates
:'Illinois Territory'
★ : Shadrack Bond
★ : Benjamin Stephenson :'Indiana Territory'
★ : Jonathan Jennings :'Mississippi Territory'
★ : William Lattimore :'Missouri Territory'
★ : Rufus Easton
★ : Edward Hempstead

Changes in membership


The count below reflects changes from the beginning of the first session of this Congress.
:''See also: 13th United States Congress - Membership Changes''
:'Senate'
★ replacements: 9
★
★ Democratic-Republicans: 2 seat net loss
★
★ Federalists: 2 seat net gain
★ deaths: 2
★ resignations: 10
★ interim appointments: 3
★ vacancies: 3
★ 'Total seats with changes: 15'		:'House of Representatives'
★ replacements: 13
★
★ Democratic-Republicans: 1 seat net gain
★
★ Federalists: 1 seat net loss
★ deaths: 6
★ resignations: 13
★ contested election: 1
★ vacancies: 4
★ 'Total seats with changes: 19'

Officers


:'Senate'
★ Secretary of the Senate:
★
★ Samuel A. Otis of Massachusetts, elected April 8 1789
★
★ Charles Cutts of New Hampshire elected October 11 1814
★ Sergeant at Arms of the Senate:
★
★ Mountjoy Bayly of New Hampshire, elected November 6 1811
★ Chaplain of the Senate
★
★ The Rev. John Brackenridge, ''Presbyterian'', elected November 13 1811
★
★ The Rev. Jesse Lee, ''Methodist'', elected September 27 1814:'Other'
★ Architect of the Capitol:
★
★ Benjamin H. Latrobe appointed March 6 1803		:'House of Representatives'
★ Clerk of the House:
★
★ Patrick Magruder of Maryland, elected May 24 1813, resigned January 28 1815
★
★ Thomas Dougherty of Kentucky, elected January 30 1815
★ Sergeant at Arms of the House:
★
★ Thomas Dunn of Maryland, elected May 24 1813
★ Doorkeeper of the House:
★
★ Thomas Claxton, elected May 24 1813
★ Chaplain of the House
★
★ The Rev. Jesse Lee, ''Methodist'', elected May 24 1813
★
★ The Rev. Obadiah B. Brown, ''Baptist'', elected September 19 1814

Notes


1. All representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket.
2. Both representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket.
3. All representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket.
4. The 5th district was a plural district with two representatives.
5. All representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket.
6. There were three plural districts, each had two representatives each.
7. There were six plural districts, the 1st, 2nd, 12th, 15th, 20th & 21st, each had two representatives.
8. There were six plural districts, the 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th & 10th had two representatives each, the 1st had four representatives.
9. Both representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket.
10. All 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



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