26th United States Congress

Template:Short description Script error: No such module "redirect hatnote". Template:More footnotes Template:Infobox United States Congress The 26th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C., from March 4, 1839, to March 4, 1841, during the third and fourth years of Martin Van Buren's presidency. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the 1830 United States census. Both chambers had a Democratic majority. Template:TOC limit

Major events

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1839: The first state law permitting women to own property was passed in Jackson, Mississippi
December 14–16, 1839: An election for the House speakership takes 11 ballots
January 19, 1840: Captain Charles Wilkes circumnavigated Antarctica, claiming what becomes known as Wilkes Land for the United States.
November 7, 1840: 1840 United States presidential election: William Henry Harrison defeated Martin Van Buren
February 18, 1841: The first ongoing filibuster in the United States Senate began and lasted until March 11

Major legislation

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Party summary

Senate

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House of Representatives

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Leadership

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President of the Senate
Richard M. Johnson

Senate

President: Richard M. Johnson (D)
President pro tempore: William R. King (D)

House of Representatives

Speaker: Robert M. T. Hunter (W) elected December 16, 1839, on the 11th ballot^[1]

Members

This list is arranged by chamber, then by state. Senators are listed by class, and representatives are listed by district.

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Senate

Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote". 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 with this Congress, requiring reelection in 1844; Class 2 meant their term ended with this Congress, requiring reelection in 1840; and Class 3 meant their term began in the last Congress, requiring reelection in 1842.

Tennessee

Template:Party stripe1. Felix Grundy (D), November 19, 1839 – December 19, 1840

Template:Party stripe Alfred O. P. Nicholson (D), from December 25, 1840

Template:Party stripe2. Hugh Lawson White (W), until January 13, 1840

Template:Party stripe Alexander O. Anderson (D), from February 26, 1840

Vermont

Template:Party stripe1. Samuel S. Phelps (W)

Template:Party stripe3. Samuel Prentiss (W)

Virginia

Template:Party stripe1. William C. Rives (W), from January 18, 1841

Template:Party stripe2. William H. Roane (D)

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Senators' party membership by state at the opening of the 26th Congress in March 1839. <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" />

2 Democrats

1 Democrat and 1 Whig

2 Whigs

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President pro tempore
William R. King

House of Representatives

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Alabama

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Reuben Chapman (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. David Hubbard (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. George W. Crabb (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Dixon H. Lewis (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James Dellet (W)

Arkansas

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Edward Cross (D)

Connecticut

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Joseph Trumbull (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William L. Storrs (W), until June ???, 1840

Template:Party stripe William W. Boardman (W), from December 7, 1840

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Thomas W. Williams (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Thomas B. Osborne (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Truman Smith (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John H. Brockway (W)

Delaware

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Thomas Robinson Jr. (D)

Georgia

All representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket.

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Julius C. Alford (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Edward J. Black (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Walter T. Colquitt (W), until July 21, 1840

Template:Party stripe Hines Holt (W), from February 1, 1841

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Mark A. Cooper (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William C. Dawson (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Richard W. Habersham (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Thomas Butler King (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Eugenius A. Nisbet (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Lott Warren (W)

Illinois

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John Reynolds (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Zadok Casey (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John T. Stuart (W)

Indiana

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. George H. Proffit (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John W. Davis (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John Carr (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Thomas Smith (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James Rariden (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William W. Wick (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Tilghman A. Howard (D), until July 1, 1840

Template:Party stripe Henry S. Lane (W), from August 3, 1840

Kentucky

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Linn Boyd (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Philip Triplett (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Joseph R. Underwood (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Sherrod Williams (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Simeon H. Anderson (W), until August 11, 1840

Template:Party stripe John B. Thompson (W), from December 7, 1840

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Willis Green (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John Pope (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William J. Graves (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John White (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Richard Hawes (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Landaff W. Andrews (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Garrett Davis (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William O. Butler (D)

Louisiana

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Edward D. White (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Thomas W. Chinn (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Rice Garland (W), until July 21, 1840

Template:Party stripe John Moore (W), from December 17, 1840

Maine

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Nathan Clifford (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Albert Smith (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Benjamin Randall (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. George Evans (W), until March 3, 1841

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Virgil D. Parris (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Hugh J. Anderson (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Joshua A. Lowell (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Thomas Davee (D)

Maryland

The 4th district was a plural district with two representatives.

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John Dennis (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Philip F. Thomas (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John T. H. Worthington (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James Carroll (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Solomon Hillen Jr. (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William Cost Johnson (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Francis Thomas (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Daniel Jenifer (W)

Massachusetts

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Abbott Lawrence (W), until September 18, 1840

Template:Party stripe Robert C. Winthrop (W), from November 9, 1840

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Leverett Saltonstall I (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Caleb Cushing (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William Parmenter (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Levi Lincoln Jr. (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James C. Alvord (W), until September 27, 1839

Template:Party stripe Osmyn Baker (W), from January 14, 1840

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. George N. Briggs (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William B. Calhoun (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William S. Hastings (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Henry Williams (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John Reed Jr. (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John Quincy Adams (W)

Michigan

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Isaac E. Crary (D)

Mississippi

Both representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket.

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Albert G. Brown (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Jacob Thompson (D)

Missouri

Both representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket.

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Albert G. Harrison (D), until September 7, 1839

Template:Party stripe John Jameson (D), from December 12, 1839

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John Miller (D)

New Hampshire

All representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket.

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Charles G. Atherton (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Edmund Burke (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Ira A. Eastman (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Tristram Shaw (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Jared W. Williams (D)

New Jersey

All representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket.

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William R. Cooper (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Philemon Dickerson (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Joseph Kille (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Joseph F. Randolph (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Daniel B. Ryall (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Peter D. Vroom (D)

New York

There were four plural districts, the 8th, 17th, 22nd & 23rd had two representatives each, the 3rd had four representatives.

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Thomas B. Jackson (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James De la Montanya (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Edward Curtis (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Moses H. Grinnell (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Ogden Hoffman (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James Monroe (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Gouverneur Kemble (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Charles Johnston (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Nathaniel Jones (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Rufus Palen (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John Ely (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Aaron Vanderpoel (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Hiram P. Hunt (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Daniel D. Barnard (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Anson Brown (W), until June 14, 1840

Template:Party stripe Nicholas B. Doe (W), from December 7, 1840

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. David A. Russell (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Augustus C. Hand (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John Fine (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Peter J. Wagner (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Andrew W. Doig (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. David P. Brewster (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John G. Floyd (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Thomas C. Chittenden (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John H. Prentiss (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Judson Allen (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John C. Clark (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Amasa Dana (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Stephen B. Leonard (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Nehemiah H. Earll (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Edward Rogers (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Christopher Morgan (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Theron R. Strong (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Francis Granger (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Meredith Mallory (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Thomas Kempshall (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Seth M. Gates (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Luther C. Peck (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Richard P. Marvin (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Millard Fillmore (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Charles F. Mitchell (W)

North Carolina

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Kenneth Rayner (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Jesse A. Bynum (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Edward Stanly (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Charles B. Shepard (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James I. McKay (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Micajah T. Hawkins (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Edmund Deberry (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William Montgomery (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John Hill (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Charles Fisher (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Henry W. Connor (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James Graham (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Lewis Williams (W)

Ohio

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Alexander Duncan (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John B. Weller (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Patrick G. Goode (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Thomas Corwin (W), until May 30, 1840

Template:Party stripe Jeremiah Morrow (W), from October 13, 1840

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William Doan (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Calvary Morris (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William K. Bond (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Joseph Ridgway (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William Medill (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Samson Mason (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Isaac Parrish (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Jonathan Taylor (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Daniel P. Leadbetter (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. George Sweeny (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John W. Allen (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Joshua R. Giddings (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John Hastings (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. David A. Starkweather (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Henry Swearingen (D)

Pennsylvania

There were two plural districts, the 2nd had two representatives, the 4th had three representatives.

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Lemuel Paynter (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John Sergeant (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. George W. Toland (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Charles Naylor (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Edward Davies (AM)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John Edwards (AM)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Francis James (AM)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Joseph Fornance (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John Davis (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. David D. Wagener (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Peter Newhard (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. George M. Keim (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William Simonton (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James Gerry (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James Cooper (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William S. Ramsey (D), until October 17, 1840

Template:Party stripe Charles McClure (D), from December 7, 1840

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William W. Potter (D), until October 28, 1839

Template:Party stripe George McCulloch (D), from November 20, 1839

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. David Petrikin (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Robert H. Hammond (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Samuel W. Morris (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Charles Ogle (AM)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Albert G. Marchand (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Enos Hook (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Isaac Leet (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Richard Biddle (AM), until July 21, 1840

Template:Party stripe Henry M. Brackenridge (W), from October 13, 1840

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William Beatty (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Thomas Henry (AM)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John Galbraith (D)

Rhode Island

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Robert B. Cranston (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Joseph L. Tillinghast (W)

South Carolina

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Isaac E. Holmes (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Robert Rhett (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John Campbell (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Sampson H. Butler (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Francis W. Pickens (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Waddy Thompson Jr. (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James Rogers (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Thomas D. Sumter (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John K. Griffin (D)

Tennessee

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William B. Carter (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Abraham McClellan (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Joseph L. Williams (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Julius W. Blackwell (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Hopkins L. Turney (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William B. Campbell (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John Bell (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Meredith P. Gentry (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Harvey M. Watterson (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Aaron V. Brown (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Cave Johnson (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John W. Crockett (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Christopher H. Williams (W)

Vermont

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Hiland Hall (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William Slade (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Horace Everett (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John Smith (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Isaac Fletcher (D)

Virginia

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Joel Holleman (D), until December 1840

Template:Party stripe Francis Mallory (W), from December 28, 1840

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Francis E. Rives (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John W. Jones (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. George C. Dromgoole (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John Hill (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Walter Coles (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William L. Goggin (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Henry A. Wise (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Robert M. T. Hunter (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John Taliaferro (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John M. Botts (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James Garland (C)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Linn Banks (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Charles F. Mercer (W), until December 26, 1839

Template:Party stripe William M. McCarty (W), from January 25, 1840

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William Lucas (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Green B. Samuels (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Robert Craig (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. George W. Hopkins (C)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Andrew Beirne (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Joseph Johnson (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Lewis Steenrod (D)

Non-voting members

Template:Ushr. Charles Downing

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William W. Chapman (D), until October 27, 1840

Template:Party stripe Augustus C. Dodge (D), from October 28, 1840

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James D. Doty (D)

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House seats by party holding plurality in state
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 80+% Democratic	<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 80+% Whig
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 60+% to 80% Democratic	<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 60+% to 80% Whig
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> Up to 60% Democratic	<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> Up to 60% Whig

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Speaker of the House
Robert M. T. Hunter

Changes in membership

The count below reflects changes from the beginning of the first session of this Congress.

Senate

Replacements: 8
- Democrats: 0-seat net loss
- Whigs: 0-seat net gain
Deaths: 3
Resignations: 7
Interim appointments: 0
Total seats with changes: 11

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|- | Pennsylvania
(1) | colspan=2 style="font-size:80%" | Vacant after previous Congress | style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Daniel Sturgeon (D) | Elected January 14, 1840 |- | Michigan
(1) | colspan=2 style="font-size:80%" | Vacant after legislature failed to reelect incumbent. | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Augustus S. Porter (W) | Elected January 20, 1840 |- | Virginia
(1) | colspan=2 style="font-size:80%" | Vacant after legislature failed to reelect incumbent. | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | William C. Rives (W) | Elected January 18, 1841 |- | Delaware
(1) | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Richard H. Bayard (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned September 19, 1839, to become Chief Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Richard H. Bayard (W) | Elected January 12, 1841, to his former position |- | Tennessee
(2) | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Hugh Lawson White (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned January 13, 1840, because he could not conscientiously obey the intentions of his constituents | style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Alexander O. Anderson (D) | Elected February 26, 1840 |- | Connecticut
(1) | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Thaddeus Betts (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Died April 7, 1840 | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Jabez W. Huntington (W) | Elected May 4, 1840 |- | Maryland
(3) | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | John S. Spence (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Died October 24, 1840 | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | John L. Kerr (W) | Elected January 5, 1841 |- | North Carolina
(2) | style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Bedford Brown (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned November 16, 1840, because he could not obey instructions of the North Carolina General Assembly | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Willie P. Mangum (W) | Elected November 25, 1840 |- | North Carolina
(3) | style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Robert Strange (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned November 16, 1840 | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | William A. Graham (W) | Elected November 25, 1840 |- | Tennessee
(1) | style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Felix Grundy (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Died December 19, 1840 | style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Alfred O. P. Nicholson (D) | Elected December 25, 1840 |- | Massachusetts
(2) | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | John Davis (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned January 5, 1841, after being elected Governor of Massachusetts | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Isaac C. Bates (W) | Elected January 13, 1841 |- | Massachusetts
(1) | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Daniel Webster (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned February 22, 1841 | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Rufus Choate (W) | Elected February 23, 1841 |}

House of Representatives

Replacements: 15
- Democrats: 2-seat net loss
- Whigs: 3-seat net gain
- Anti-Masonic: 1-seat net loss
Deaths: 6
Resignations: 10
Contested election: 0
Total seats with changes: 17

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|- | Template:Ushr | Vacant | style="font-size:80%" | Rep-elect Howard presented credentials August 5, 1839 | style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Tilghman Howard (D) | Seated August 5, 1839 |- | Template:Ushr | style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Albert G. Harrison (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Died September 7, 1839 | style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | John Jameson (D) | Seated December 12, 1839 |- | Template:Ushr | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | James C. Alvord (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Died September 27, 1839 | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Osmyn Baker (W) | Seated January 14, 1840 |- | Template:Ushr | style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | William W. Potter (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Died October 28, 1839 | style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | George McCulloch (D) | Seated November 20, 1839 |- | Template:Ushr | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Charles F. Mercer (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned December 26, 1839 | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | William M. McCarty (W) | Seated January 25, 1840 |- | Template:Ushr | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Thomas Corwin (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned May 30, 1840, having become a candidate for Governor of Ohio | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Jeremiah Morrow (W) | Seated October 13, 1840 |- | Template:Ushr | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | William L. Storrs (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned some time in June, 1840 | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | William W. Boardman (W) | Seated December 7, 1840 |- | Template:Ushr | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Anson Brown (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Died June 14, 1840 | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Nicholas B. Doe (W) | Seated December 7, 1840 |- | Template:Ushr | style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Tilghman Howard (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned July 1, 1840 | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | HHenry S. Lane (W) | Seated August 3, 1840 |- | Template:Ushr | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Walter T. Colquitt (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned July 21, 1840 | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Hines Holt (W) | Seated February 1, 1841 |- | Template:Ushr | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Rice Garland (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned July 21, 1840, to accept appointment as judge of Louisiana Supreme Court | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | John Moore (W) | Seated December 17, 1840 |- | Template:Ushr | style="background:#FFFF99" | Richard Biddle (AM) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned July 21, 1840 | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Henry M. Brackenridge (W) | Seated October 13, 1840 |- | Template:Ushr | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Simeon H. Anderson (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Died August 11, 1840 | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | John B. Thompson (W) | Seated December 7, 1840 |- | Template:Ushr | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Abbott Lawrence (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned September 18, 1840 | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Robert C. Winthrop (W) | Seated November 9, 1840 |- | Template:Ushr | style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | William S. Ramsey (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Died October 17, 1840 | style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Charles McClure (D) | Seated December 7, 1840 |- | Template:Ushr | style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | William W. Chapman (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Term expired by law October 27, 1840 | style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Augustus C. Dodge (D) | Seated October 28, 1840 |- | Template:Ushr | style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Joel Holleman (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned in December 1840 | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Francis Mallory (W) | Seated December 28, 1840 |- | Template:Ushr | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | George Evans (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned March 3, 1841, after being elected to the US Senate | Vacant | Not filled this term |}

Committees

Lists of committees and their party leaders.

Senate

Agriculture (Chairman: Alexander Mouton)
Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate (Chairman: Nehemiah R. Knight)
Claims (Chairman: Henry Hubbard)
Commerce (Chairman: William R. King)
Distributing Public Revenue Among the States (Select)
District of Columbia (Chairman: Richard H. Bayard)&
Engrossed Bills (Chairman: Oliver Smith then John Henderson)
Finance (Chairman: Silas Wright)
Fiscal Corporation of the United States (Select)
Foreign Relations (Chairman: James Buchanan)
Indian Affairs (Chairman: Ambrose H. Sevier)
Judiciary (Chairman: Garret D. Wall)
Manufactures (Chairman: Wilson Lumpkin)
Military Affairs (Chairman: Thomas Hart Benton)
Militia (Chairman: Clement C. Clay)
Naval Affairs (Chairman: Reuel Williams)
Patents and the Patent Office (Chairman: Daniel Sturgeon)
Pensions (Chairman: Franklin Pierce)
Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: John M. Robinson)
Printing (Chairman: N/A)
Private Land Claims (Chairman: Lewis F. Linn)
Public Buildings and Grounds (Chairman: William S. Fulton)
Public Lands (Chairman: Robert J. Walker)
Revolutionary Claims (Chairman: Perry Smith)
Roads and Canals (Chairman: Richard M. Young)
Tariff Regulation (Select)
Whole

House of Representatives

Accounts (Chairman: Joseph Johnson)
Agriculture (Chairman: Edmund Deberry)
Apportionment of Representatives (Select)
Claims (Chairman: David A. Russell)
Commerce (Chairman: Edward Curtis)
District of Columbia (Chairman: William C. Johnson)
Elections (Chairman: Francis E. Rives)
Expenditures in the Navy Department (Chairman: Leverett Saltonstall I)
Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Chairman: Richard P. Marvin)
Expenditures in the State Department (Chairman: Joseph R. Underwood)
Expenditures in the Treasury Department (Chairman: George Evans)
Expenditures in the War Department (Chairman: Peter J. Wagner)
Expenditures on Public Buildings (Chairman: Edward Stanly)
Foreign Affairs (Chairman: Francis W. Pickens)
Indian Affairs (Chairman: John Bell)
Invalid Pensions (Chairman: Sherrod Williams)
Judiciary (Chairman: John Sergeant)
Manufactures (Chairman: John Quincy Adams)
Memorial of the Agricultural Bank of Mississippi (Select)
Mileage (Chairman: Thomas W. Williams)
Military Affairs (Chairman: Cave Johnson until 1840, then Waddy Thompson Jr.)
Militia (Chairman: George M. Keim)
Naval Affairs (Chairman: Francis Thomas)
Patents (Chairman: Issac Fletcher)
Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: James I. McKay)
Private Land Claims (Chairman: William B. Calhoun)
Public Buildings and Grounds (Chairman: Stephen B. Leonard)
Public Expenditures (Chairman: William K. Bond)
Public Lands (Chairman: Thomas Corwin 1839-1840, then Samson Mason 1840, then Jeremiah Morrow)
Revisal and Unfinished Business (Chairman: Luther C. Peck)
Revolutionary Claims (Chairman: Joseph F. Randolph)
Revolutionary Pensions (Chairman: John Taliaferro)
Roads and Canals (Chairman: Charles Ogle)
Rules (Select)
Standards of Official Conduct
Territories (Chairman: John Pope)
Ways and Means (Chairman: John W. Jones)
Whole

Joint committees

Enrolled Bills (Chairman: Sen. Benjamin Tappan)
The Library (Chairman: N/A)

Employees

Librarian of Congress: John Silva Meehan

Senate

Chaplain: Henry Slicer (Methodist), until December 31, 1839
- George G. Cookman (Methodist), from December 31, 1839
Secretary: Asbury Dickins
Sergeant at Arms: Stephen Haight

House of Representatives

Chaplain: Levi M. Reese (Methodist), until February 4, 1840
- Joshua Bates (Congregationalist), elected February 4, 1840
- Thomas W. Braxton (Baptist), elected December 7, 1840
Clerk: Hugh A. Garland
Doorkeeper: Joseph Follansbee, elected December 23, 1839
Postmaster: William J. McCormick, elected December 23, 1839
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Sergeant at Arms: Roderick Dorsey

Notes

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References

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26th United States Congress

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