21st United States Congress
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Template:Infobox United States Congress The 21st 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, 1829, to March 4, 1831, during the first two years of Andrew Jackson's presidency. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the 1820 United States census. Both chambers had a Jacksonian majority.
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Major events
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- March 4, 1829: Andrew Jackson became 7th President of the United States
- May 10–14, 1830: Confrontational meetings between the French Chargé d'affaires in Washington DC and a group of leaders consisting of Mark Alexander, William S. Archer, Robert H. Adams, Thomas Hinds, Dixon H. Lewis, Clement Comer Clay, Powhatan Ellis and John McKinley grew incredibly contentious and hostile. Arguments began when the aforementioned representatives and senators charged that France owed the United States reparations from damages incurred during the Quasi-War. At one point Thomas Hinds threatened the French Chargé d'affaires with a pistol. Eventually, only intervention by John Forsyth prevented a major diplomatic incident. Shortly after this the governor of Virginia John Floyd formally asked France's economic attaché to leave Virginia. This foreshadowed conflict with France over the same issue that would dominate American politics in 1835, at that point the main instigator on the American side would be President Andrew Jackson.[1][2]
- May 28 – US congress passes the Indian Removal Act.
- September 27 – Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek with Choctaw nation. (First removal treaty signed after the Removal Act.)
Major legislation
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- May 28, 1830: Indian Removal Act, ch. 148, 4 Stat. 411
Not enacted
- May 27, 1830: Maysville Road Bill vetoed
Treaties
- September 27, 1830: The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, the first removal treaty after the passage of the Indian Removal Act, is signed with the Choctaw.
- February 24, 1831: Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek proclaimed.
Party summary
The count below identifies party affiliations at the beginning of the first session of this congress. Changes resulting from subsequent replacements are shown below in the "Changes in membership" section.
Senate
John C. Calhoun.
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House of Representatives
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Leadership
Samuel Smith.
Senate
House of Representatives
- Speaker: Andrew Stevenson (J)
Members
This list is arranged by chamber, then by state. Senators are listed by class, and representatives are listed by district.
Senate
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House of Representatives
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Changes in membership
The count below reflects changes from the beginning of the first session of this Congress.
Senate
- Replacements: 4
- Jacksonians (J): no net change
- National Republicans (NR): no net change
- Deaths: 4
- Resignations: 4
- Interim appointments: 1
- Total seats with changes: 7
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| Georgia
(3)
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | John M. Berrien (J)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned March 9, 1829, to become U.S. Attorney General.
Successor elected November 9, 1829.
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | John Forsyth (J)
| Installed November 9, 1829
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| North Carolina
(2)
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | John Branch (J)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned March 9, 1829, after being appointed U.S. Secretary of the Navy.
Successor elected December 9, 1829.
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Bedford Brown (J)
| Installed December 9, 1829
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| Tennessee
(1)
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | John Eaton (J)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned March 9, 1829, after being appointed U.S. Secretary of War.
Successor elected October 19, 1829.
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Felix Grundy (J)
| Installed October 19, 1829
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| Delaware
(1)
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Louis McLane (J)
| style="font-size:80%" | Resigned April 29, 1829, to become U.S. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United Kingdom.
Successor elected January 7, 1830.
| style="background-color:#FFE6B0" | Arnold Naudain (NR)
| Installed January 7, 1830
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| Mississippi
(2)
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Thomas B. Reed (J)
| style="font-size:80%" | Died November 26, 1829.
Successor elected January 6, 1830.
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Robert H. Adams (J)
| Installed January 6, 1830
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| Mississippi
(2)
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | Robert H. Adams (J)
| style="font-size:80%" | Died July 2, 1830.
Successor appointed October 15, 1830, to continue the term, and subsequently elected.
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | George Poindexter (J)
| Installed October 15, 1830
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| Illinois
(2)
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | John McLean (J)
| style="font-size:80%" | Died October 14, 1830.
Successor appointed November 12, 1830, to continue the term.
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | David J. Baker (J)
| Installed November 12, 1830
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| Illinois
(2)
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | David J. Baker (J)
| style="font-size:80%" | Appointee retired with elected successor qualified.
Successor elected December 11, 1830.
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | John M. Robinson (J)
| Installed December 11, 1830
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| Indiana
(1)
| style="background-color:#FFE6B0" | James Noble (NR)
| style="font-size:80%" | Died February 26, 1831.
Seat filled next Congress.
| Vacant
| Not filled this Congress
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House of Representatives
- Replacements: 5
- Jacksonians (J): 1 seat net loss
- National Republicans (NR): 1 seat net gain
- Deaths: 2
- Resignations: 10
- Contested election: 2
Total seats with changes: 15
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Committees
Lists of committees and their party leaders.
Senate
- Accounts of James Monroe (Select)
- Agriculture (Chairman: William Marks)
- Amending the Constitution on the Election of the President and Vice President (Select)
- Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate (Chairman: Elias Kane then James Iredell Jr.)
- Claims (Chairman: Benjamin Ruggles)
- Commerce (Chairman: Levi Woodbury)
- Distributing Public Revenue Among the States (Select)
- District of Columbia (Chairman: Ezekiel F. Chambers)
- Dueling (Select)
- Engrossed Bills (Chairman: William Marks)
- Finance (Chairman: Samuel Smith)
- Foreign Relations (Chairman: Littleton Tazewell)
- French Spoilations (Select)
- Impeachment of James H. Peck (Select)
- Indian Affairs (Chairman: Hugh Lawson White)
- Judiciary (Chairman: John Rowan)
- Manufactures (Chairman: Mahlon Dickerson)
- Memorial of the Manufacturers Iron (Select)
- Mileage of Members of Congress (Select)
- Military Affairs (Chairman: Thomas Hart Benton)
- Militia (Chairman: Isaac D. Barnard)
- Naval Affairs (Chairman: Robert Y. Hayne)
- Nomination of Amos Kendall (Select)
- Pensions (Chairman: John Holmes)
- Post Office Department (Select)
- Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: George M. Bibb)
- Private Land Claims (Chairman: Jacob Burnet)
- Public Lands (Chairman: David Barton)
- Roads and Canals (Select) (Chairman: William Hendricks)
- Tariff Regulation (Select)
- Whole
House of Representatives
- Accounts (Chairman: Jehiel H. Halsey)
- Agriculture (Chairman: Ambrose Spencer)
- American Colonization Society (Select)
- Claims (Chairman: Elisha Whittlesey)
- Commerce (Chairman: Churchill C. Cambreleng)
- District of Columbia (Chairman: Gershom Powers)
- Elections (Chairman: Willis Alston)
- Establishing an Assay Office in the Gold Region (Select)
- Expenditures in the Navy Department (Chairman: Augustine H. Shepperd)
- Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Chairman: Joel Yancey)
- Expenditures in the State Department (Chairman: Jonas Earll)
- Expenditures in the Treasury Department (Chairman: George G. Leiper)
- Expenditures in the War Department (Chairman: Lewis Maxwell)
- Expenditures on Public Buildings (Chairman: Michael C. Sprigg)
- Foreign Affairs (Chairman: William S. Archer)
- Indian Affairs (Chairman: John Bell)
- Judiciary (Chairman: James Buchanan)
- Manufactures (Chairman: Rollin C. Mallary)
- Military Affairs (Chairman: William Drayton)
- Military Pensions (Chairman: Isaac C. Bates)
- Naval Affairs (Chairman: Michael Hoffman)
- Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: Richard M. Johnson)
- Private Land Claims (Chairman: John B. Sterigere)
- Public Expenditures (Chairman: Thomas H. Hall)
- Public Lands (Chairman: Jacob C. Isacks then Charles A. Wickliffe)
- Revisal and Unfinished Business (Chairman: Dutee J. Pearce)
- Revolutionary Claims (Chairman: Tristam Burges)
- Revolutionary Pensions (Chairman: N/A)
- Rules (Select)
- Standards of Official Conduct
- Territories (Chairman: James Clark)
- Ways and Means (Chairman: George McDuffie)
- Whole
Joint committees
Employees
Legislative branch agency directors
- Architect of the Capitol: Charles Bulfinch, until June 25, 1829 (office abolished)
- Librarian of Congress: John Silva Meehan
Senate
- Chaplain: William Ryland (Methodist), until December 14, 1829
- Henry V. Johns (Episcopalian), elected December 14, 1829
- Secretary: Walter Lowrie
- Sergeant at Arms: Mountjoy Bayly
House of Representatives
- Chaplain: Reuben Post (Presbyterian), until December 13, 1830
- Ralph R. Gurley (Presbyterian), elected December 13, 1830
- Clerk: Matthew St. Clair Clarke
- Doorkeeper: Benjamin Birch
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- Sergeant at Arms: John O. Dunn
See also
- 1828 United States elections (elections leading to this Congress)
- 1830 United States elections (elections during this Congress, leading to the next Congress)
Notes
References
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External links
From American Memory at the Library of Congress:
- Statutes at Large, 1789-1875
- Senate Journal, First Forty-three Sessions of Congress
- House Journal, First Forty-three Sessions of Congress
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Other U.S. government websites:
- House Document No. 108-222 from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (1774–2005)
- House History from the U.S. House of Representatives
- Statistics and Lists from the U.S. Senate