27th United States Congress

Template:Short description Script error: No such module "redirect hatnote". Template:More footnotes Template:Infobox United States Congress The 27th 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., between March 4, 1841, and March 4, 1843, during the one-month presidency of William Henry Harrison and the first two years of the presidency of his successor, John Tyler. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the 1830 United States census. Both chambers had a Whig majority, making the 27th Congress the only Whig-controlled Congress of the Second Party System. Template:TOClimit

Major events

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March 4, 1841: William Henry Harrison was inaugurated as President of the United States
April 4, 1841: President Harrison died and Vice President John Tyler became President
August 16, 1841: President Tyler's veto of a bill to re-establish the Second Bank of the United States led Whig Party members to riot outside the White House in the most violent demonstration on White House grounds in U.S. history.
May 19, 1842: Dorr Rebellion
December 17, 1842: Samuel W. Trotti of South Carolina, became the first Italian American to serve in Congress.

Major legislation

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April 19, 1841: Bankruptcy Act of 1841, ch. 9, 5 Stat. 440
September 4, 1841: Preemption Act of 1841, ch. 16, 5 Stat. 453
August 4, 1842: Armed Occupation Act, 5 Stat. 502
August 30, 1842: Tariff of 1842 ("Black Tariff"), ch. 270, 5 Stat. 548

Treaties

August 9, 1842: Webster-Ashburton Treaty signed, establishing the United States–Canada border east of the Rocky Mountains.

Party summary

Senate

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House of Representatives

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Leadership

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President of the Senate
John Tyler

Senate

President: John Tyler (W), until April 4, 1841, thereafter vacant
Presidents pro tempore: William R. King (D), elected March 4, 1841
- Samuel L. Southard (W), elected March 11, 1841
- Willie P. Mangum (W), elected May 31, 1842

House of Representatives

Speaker: John D. White (W)

Members

This list is arranged by chamber, then by state. Senators are listed in order of seniority, and representatives are listed by district.

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Senate

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2. vacant

Vermont

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

Template:Party stripe3. Samuel Prentiss (W), until April 11, 1842

Template:Party stripe Samuel C. Crafts (W), from April 23, 1842

Virginia

Template:Party stripe1. William C. Rives (W)

Template:Party stripe2. William S. Archer (W)

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Senators' party membership by state at the opening of the 27th Congress in March 1841. One of Tennessee's seats was never filled. <templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" />

2 Democrats

1 Democrat and 1 Whig

2 Whigs

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President pro tempore, 1841
William R. King

File:Samuel L. Southard.jpg

President pro tempore, 1841-42
Samuel L. Southard

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President pro tempore, 1842-43
Willie Person Mangum

House of Representatives

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Alabama

All representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket.

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

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. George S. Houston (D)

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

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

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Benjamin Shields (D)

Arkansas

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

Connecticut

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

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

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. George B. Rodney (W)

Georgia

All representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket.

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Julius C. Alford (W), until October 1, 1841

Template:Party stripe Edward J. Black (D), from January 3, 1842

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William C. Dawson (W), until November 13, 1841

Template:Party stripe Walter T. Colquitt (D), from January 3, 1842

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Thomas F. Foster (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Roger L. Gamble (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Richard W. Habersham (W), until December 2, 1842

Template:Party stripe George W. Crawford (W), from January 7, 1843

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

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

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Eugenius Nisbet (W), until October 12, 1841

Template:Party stripe Mark A. Cooper (D), from January 3, 1842

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

Illinois

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

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Zadok Casey (Ind. 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. Richard W. Thompson (W)

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

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James H. Cravens (W)

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

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. David Wallace (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Henry S. Lane (W)

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. Bryan Owsley (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John B. Thompson (W)

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

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

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

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

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Thomas F. Marshall (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. John B. Dawson (D)

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

Maine

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

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William P. Fessenden (W)

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

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. David Bronson (W), from May 31, 1841

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

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Alfred Marshall (D)

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

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

Maryland

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

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Isaac Jones (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James A. Pearce (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James W. Williams (D), until December 2, 1842

Template:Party stripe Charles S. Sewall (D), from January 2, 1843

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John P. Kennedy (W)

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

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

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

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Augustus R. Sollers (W)

Massachusetts

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Robert C. Winthrop (W), until May 25, 1842

Template:Party stripe Nathan Appleton (W), from June 9, 1842, until September 28, 1842

Template:Party stripe Robert C. Winthrop (W), from November 29, 1842

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), until March 16, 1841

Template:Party stripe Charles Hudson (W), from May 3, 1841

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Osmyn Baker (W)

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), until June 17, 1842

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Nathaniel B. Borden (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Barker Burnell (W)

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

Michigan

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Jacob M. Howard (W)

Mississippi

All representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket.

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William M. Gwin (D)

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

Missouri

All representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket.

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John C. Edwards (D)

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. John R. Reding (D)

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

New Jersey

All representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket.

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John B. Aycrigg (W)

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

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John P. B. Maxwell (W)

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

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Charles C. Stratton (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Thomas J. Yorke (W)

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. Charles A. Floyd (D)

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

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

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

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

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Fernando Wood (D)

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

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

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. James G. Clinton (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John Van Buren (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Jacob Houck Jr. (D)

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

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

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

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Archibald L. Linn (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Bernard Blair (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Thomas A. Tomlinson (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Henry Bell Van Rensselaer (W)

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

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. Samuel S. Bowne (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Samuel Gordon (D)

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

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Samuel Partridge (D)

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

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Victory Birdseye (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. A. Lawrence Foster (W)

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

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

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Francis Granger (W), until March 5, 1841

Template:Party stripe John Greig (W), from May 21, 1841, until September 25, 1841

Template:Party stripe Francis Granger (W), from November 27, 1841

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William M. Oliver (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Timothy Childs (W)

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

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

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Staley N. Clarke (W)

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

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Alfred Babcock (W)

North Carolina

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

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John R. J. Daniel (D)

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

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

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

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Archibald H. Arrington (D)

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

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Romulus M. Saunders (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Augustine H. Shepperd (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Abraham Rencher (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Greene Caldwell (D)

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

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Lewis Williams (W), until February 23, 1842

Template:Party stripe Anderson Mitchell (W), from April 27, 1842

Ohio

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Nathanael G. Pendleton (W)

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

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

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Jeremiah Morrow (W)

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

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

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. William Russell (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. Benjamin S. Cowen (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Joshua Mathiot (W)

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

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

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

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Joshua R. Giddings (W), until March 22, 1842, and from December 5, 1842

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

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Ezra Dean (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Samuel Stokely (W)

Pennsylvania

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

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

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

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John Sergeant (W), until September 15, 1841

Template:Party stripe Joseph R. Ingersoll (W), from October 12, 1841

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Charles J. Ingersoll (D)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Jeremiah Brown (W)

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

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

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

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Robert Ramsey (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. John Westbrook (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. Amos Gustine (D)

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

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Benjamin A. Bidlack (D)

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

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Davis Dimock Jr. (D), until January 13, 1842

Template:Party stripe Almon H. Read (D), from March 18, 1842

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Charles Ogle (W), until May 10, 1841

Template:Party stripe Henry Black (W), from June 28, 1841, until November 28, 1841

Template:Party stripe James M. Russell (W), from December 21, 1841

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

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Enos Hook (D), until April 18, 1841

Template:Party stripe Henry W. Beeson (D), from May 31, 1841

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Joseph Lawrence (W), until April 17, 1842

Template:Party stripe Thomas M. T. McKennan (W), from May 30, 1842

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

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

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

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Arnold Plumer (D)

Rhode Island

Both representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket.

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), until September 27, 1842

Template:Party stripe Samuel W. Trotti (D), from December 17, 1842

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

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

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

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

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Patrick C. Caldwell (D)

Tennessee

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Thomas D. Arnold (W)

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

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

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

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

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

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Robert L. Caruthers (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. Milton Brown (W)

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Christopher 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. Augustus Young (W)

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

Virginia

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

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. George B. Cary (D)

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

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

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Edmund W. Hubard (D)

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:Efn

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

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

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

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Linn Banks (D), until December 6, 1841

Template:Party stripe William Smith (D), from December 6, 1841

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Cuthbert Powell (W)

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

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

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Alexander Stuart (W)

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

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

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. Samuel Hays (D)

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

Non-voting members

Template:Party stripe Template:Ushr. David Levy Yulee (D)

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

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

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House seats by party holding plurality in state
<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> 80+% to 100% Democratic	<templatestyles src="Legend/styles.css" /> Up to 60% 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" /> 80+% to 100% Whig

File:John White.jpg

Speaker of the House
John White

Changes in membership

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

Senate

Replacements: 9
- Democrats: no net change
- Whigs: no net change
Deaths: 2
Resignations: 8
Interim appointments: 0
Vacancy: 1
Total seats with changes: 10

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House of Representatives

Replacements: 17
- Democrats: 3 seat net gain
- Whigs: 3 seat net loss
Deaths: 8
Resignations: 12
Contested election: 1
Total seats with changes: 20

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George Evans resigned in previous congress | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | David Bronson (W) | Seated May 31, 1841 |- | Template:Ushr | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Francis Granger (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned March 5, 1841, after being appointed United States Postmaster General | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | John Greig (W) | Seated May 21, 1841 |- | Template:Ushr | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Levi Lincoln Jr. (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned March 16, 1841, after being appointed Collector of the port of Boston | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Charles Hudson (W) | Seated May 3, 1841 |- | Template:Ushr | style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Enos Hook (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned April 18, 1841 | style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Henry W. Beeson (D) | Seated May 31, 1841 |- | Template:Ushr | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Charles Ogle (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Died May 10, 1841 | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Henry Black (W) | Seated June 28, 1841 |- | Template:Ushr | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | John Sergeant (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned September 15, 1841 | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Joseph R. Ingersoll (W) | Seated October 12, 1841 |- | Template:Ushr | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | John Greig (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned September 25, 1841 | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Francis Granger (W) | Seated November 27, 1841 |- | Template:Ushr | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Julius C. Alford (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned October 1, 1841 | style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Edward J. Black (D) | Seated January 3, 1842 |- | Template:Ushr | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Eugenius A. Nisbet (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned October 12, 1841 | style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Mark A. Cooper (D) | Seated January 3, 1842 |- | Template:Ushr | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | William C. Dawson (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned November 13, 1841 | style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Walter T. Colquitt (D) | Seated January 3, 1842 |- | Template:Ushr | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Henry Black (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Died November 28, 1841 | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | James M. Russell (W) | Seated December 21, 1841 |- | Template:Ushr | style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Linn Banks (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Lost contested election December 6, 1841 | style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | William Smith (D) | Seated December 6, 1841 |- | Template:Ushr | style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Davis Dimock Jr. (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Died January 13, 1842 | style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Almon H. Read (D) | Seated March 18, 1842 |- | Template:Ushr | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Lewis Williams (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Died February 23, 1842 | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Anderson Mitchell (W) | Seated April 27, 1842 |- | Template:Ushr | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Joshua R. Giddings (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned March 22, 1842, after vote of his censure and re-elected to same seat | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Joshua R. Giddings (W) | Seated December 5, 1842 |- | Template:Ushr | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Joseph Lawrence (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Died April 17, 1842 | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Thomas M. T. McKennan (W) | Seated May 30, 1842 |- | Template:Ushr | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Robert C. Winthrop (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned May 25, 1842 | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Nathan Appleton (W) | Seated June 9, 1842 |- | Template:Ushr | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | William S. Hastings (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Died June 17, 1842 | Vacant | Not filled this Congress |- | Template:Ushr | style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Sampson H. Butler (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned September 27, 1842 | style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Samuel W. Trotti (D) | Seated December 17, 1842 |- | Template:Ushr | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Nathan Appleton (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Resigned September 28, 1842 | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Robert C. Winthrop (W) | Seated November 29, 1842 |- | Template:Ushr | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Richard W. Habersham (W) | style="font-size:80%" | Died December 2, 1842 | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | George W. Crawford (W) | Seated January 7, 1843 |- | Template:Ushr | style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | James W. Williams (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Died December 2, 1842 | style="color:black;background-color:Template:Democratic Party (US)/meta/shading" | Charles S. Sewall (D) | Seated January 2, 1843 |}

Committees

Lists of committees and their party leaders.

Senate

Agriculture (Chairman: Lewis F. Linn)
Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate (Chairman: Albert S. White then Benjamin Tappan)
Claims (Chairman: William A. Graham)
Commerce (Chairman: Jabez Huntington)
Distributing Public Revenue Among the States (Select)
District of Columbia (Chairman: Richard H. Bayard)
Finance (Chairman: Clement C. Clay)
Fiscal Corporation of the United States (Select)
Foreign Relations (Chairman: William C. Rives then William S. Archer)
Indian Affairs (Chairman: James T. Morehead then Albert White)
Judiciary (Chairman: John M. Berrien)
Manufactures (Chairman: George Evans)
Military Affairs (Chairman: William C. Preston then John J. Crittenden)
Militia (Chairman: Samuel S. Phelps)
Naval Affairs (Chairman: Willie P. Mangum)
Patents and the Patent Office (Chairman: Samuel Prentiss then John Leeds Kerr then Samuel S. Phelps)
Pensions (Chairman: Isaac C. Bates)
Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: John Henderson)
Printing (Chairman: N/A)
Private Land Claims (Chairman: Richard H. Bayard)
Public Buildings and Grounds (Chairman: Alexander Barrow)
Public Lands (Chairman: Oliver H. Smith)
Revolutionary Claims (Chairman: Nathan F. Dixon)
Roads and Canals (Chairman: Augustus S. Porter)
Tariff Regulation (Select)
Whole

House of Representatives

Accounts (Chairman: Osmyn Baker)
Agriculture (Chairman: Edmund Deberry)
Apportionment of Representatives (Select)
Claims (Chairman: Joshua Giddings)
Commerce (Chairman: John P. Kennedy)
District of Columbia (Chairman: Joseph R. Underwood)
Elections (Chairman: William Halstead)
Expenditures in the Navy Department (Chairman: Thomas Jones Yorke)
Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Chairman: Joshua A. Lowell)
Expenditures in the State Department (Chairman: John Van Buren)
Expenditures in the Treasury Department (Chairman: A. Lawrence Foster)
Expenditures in the War Department (Chairman: James Iver McKay)
Expenditures on Public Buildings (Chairman: Cave Johnson)
Foreign Affairs (Chairman: Caleb Cushing then John Quincy Adams)
Indian Affairs (Chairman: John Quincy Adams)
Invalid Pensions (Chairman: Calvary Morris)
Judiciary (Chairman: Daniel D. Barnard)
Manufactures (Chairman: Leverett Saltonstall I)
Memorial of the Agricultural Bank of Mississippi (Select)
Mileage (Chairman: Thomas W. Williams)
Military Affairs (Chairman: William C. Dawson)
Militia (Chairman: George May Keim)
Naval Affairs (Chairman: Henry A. Wise)
Patents (Chairman: Thomas B. Osborne)
Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: George N. Briggs)
Private Land Claims (Chairman: John Moore)
Public Buildings and Grounds (Chairman: William W. Boardman)
Public Expenditures (Chairman: James Graham)
Public Lands (Chairman: William C. Johnson then Jeremiah Morrow then Reuben Chapman then Jeremiah Morrow)
Revisal and Unfinished Business (Chairman: Francis James)
Revolutionary Claims (Chairman: Hiland Hall)
Revolutionary Pensions (Chairman: John Taliaferro)
Roads and Canals (Chairman: Joseph Lawrence)
Rules (Select)
Standards of Official Conduct
Territories (Chairman: Garrett Davis)
Ways and Means (Chairman: Millard Fillmore)
Whole

Joint committees

Enrolled Bills (Chairman: Sen. Augustus Porter then Sen. William Sprague)
The Library (Chairman: N/A)

Employees

Librarian of Congress: John Silva Meehan

Senate

Secretary: Asbury Dickins
Sergeant at Arms: Stephen Haight, until March 8, 1841
- Edward Dyer, elected March 8, 1841
Chaplain: George G. Cookman, Methodist, until June 12, 1841
- Septimus Tustin, Presbyterian, elected June 12, 1841

House of Representatives

Clerk: Hugh A. Garland, until May 31, 1841
- Matthew St. Clair Clarke, elected May 31, 1841
Sergeant at Arms: Roderick Dorsey, until June 8, 1841
- Eleazor M. Townsend, elected June 8, 1841
Doorkeeper: Joseph Follansbee
Postmaster: William J. McCormick
Chaplain: John W. French, Episcopalian, elected May 31, 1841
- John N. Maffit, Methodist, elected December 6, 1841
- Frederick T. Tiffany, Episcopalian, elected December 5, 1842
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Notes

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References

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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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27th United States Congress

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