FIRST SESSION OF THE TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS: LIST OF MEMBERS: ORGANIZATION OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Senate.
Maine.—John Fairfield, George Evans.
New Hampshire.—Levi Woodbury, Charles G. Atherton.
Vermont.—Samuel Phelps, William C. Upham.
Massachusetts.—Rufus Choate, Isaac C. Bates.
Rhode Island.—William Sprague, James F. Simmons.
Connecticut.—J. W. Huntington, John M. Niles.
New York.—N. P. Tallmadge, Silas Wright.
New Jersey.—W. L. Dayton, Jacob W. Miller.
Pennsylvania.—D. W. Sturgeon, James Buchanan.
Delaware.—R. H. Bayard, Thomas Clayton.
Maryland.—William D. Merrick, Reverdy Johnson.
Virginia.—Wm. C. Rives, Wm. S. Archer.
North Carolina.—Willie P. Mangum, Wm. H. Haywood, jr.
South Carolina.—Daniel E. Hugér, George McDuffie.
Georgia.—John M. Berrien, Walter T. Colquitt.
Alabama.—William R. King, Arthur P. Bagby.
Mississippi.—John Henderson, Robert J. Walker.
Louisiana.—Alexander Barrow, Alexander Porter.
Tennessee.—E. H. Foster, Spencer Jarnagan.
Kentucky.—John T. Morehead, John J. Crittenden.
Ohio.—Benjamin Tappan, William Allen.
Indiana.—Albert S. White, Ed. A. Hannegan.
Illinois.—James Semple, Sidney Breese.
Missouri.—T. H. Benton, D. R. Atchison.
Arkansas.—Wm. S. Fulton, A. H. Sevier.
Michigan.—A. S. Porter, W. Woodbridge.
House of Representatives.
Maine.—Joshua Herrick, Robert P. Dunlap, Luther Severance, Hannibal Hamlin.
Massachusetts.—Robert C. Winthrop, Daniel P. King, William Parmenter, Charles Hudson, (Vacancy), John Quincy Adams, Henry Williams, Joseph Grinnel.
New Hampshire.—Edmund Burke, John R. Reding, John P. Hale, Moses Norris, jr.
Rhode Island.—Henry Y. Cranston, Elisha R. Potter.
Connecticut.—Thomas H. Seymour, John Stewart, George S. Catlin, Samuel Simons.
Vermont.—Solomon Foot, Jacob Collamer, George P. Marsh, Paul Dillingham, jr.
New York.—Selah B. Strong, Henry C. Murphy, J. Philips Phœnix, William B. Maclay, Moses G. Leonard, Hamilton Fish, Jos. H. Anderson, R. D. Davis, Jas. G. Clinton, Jeremiah Russell, Zadoc Pratt, David L. Seymour, Daniel D. Barnard, Wm. G. Hunter, Lemuel Stetson, Chesselden Ellis, Charles S. Benton, Preston King, Orville Hungerford, Samuel Beardsley, J. E. Cary, S. M. Purdy, Orville Robinson, Horace Wheaton, George Rathbun, Amasa Dana, Byram Green, Thos. J. Patterson, Charles H. Carroll, Wm. S. Hubbell, Asher Tyler, Wm. A. Moseley, Albert Smith, Washington Hunt.
New Jersey.—Lucius Q. C. Elmer, George Sykes, Isaac G. Farlee, Littleton Kirkpatrick, Wm. Wright.
Pennsylvania.—Edward J. Morris, Joseph R. Ingersoll, John T. Smith, Charles J. Ingersoll, Jacob S. Yost, Michael H. Jenks, Abrah. R. McIlvaine, Henry Nes, James Black, James Irvin, Andrew Stewart, Henry D. Foster, Jeremiah Brown, John Ritter, Rich. Brodhead, jr., Benj. A. Bidlack, Almond H. Read, Henry Frick, Alexander Ramsey, John Dickey, William Wilkins, Samuel Hays, Charles M. Read, Joseph Buffington.
Delaware.—George B. Rodney.
Maryland.—J. M. S. Causin, F. Brengle, J. Withered, J. P. Kennedy, Dr. Preston, Thomas A. Spence.
Virginia.—Archibald Atkinson, Geo. C. Dromgoole, Walter Coles, Edmund Hubard, Thomas W. Gilmer, John W. Jones, Henry A. Wise, Willoughby Newton, Samuel Chilton, William F. Lucas, William Taylor, A. A. Chapman, Geo. W. Hopkins, Geo. W. Summers, Lewis Steenrod.
North Carolina.—Thomas J. Clingman, D. M. Barringer, David S. Reid, Edmund Deberry, R. M. Saunders, James J. McKay, J. R. Daniel, A. H. Arrington, Kenneth Rayner.
South Carolina.—James A. Black, Richard F. Simpson, Joseph A. Woodward, John Campbell, Artemas Burt, Isaac E. Holmes, R. Barnwell Rhett.
Georgia.—E. J. Black, H. A. Haralson, J. H. Lumpkin, Howell Cobb, Wm. H. Stiles, Alexander H. Stevens, A. H. Chappell.
Kentucky.—Linn Boyd, Willis Green, Henry Grider, George A. Caldwell, James Stone, John White, William P. Thompson, Garrett Davis, Richard French, J. W. Tibbatts.
Tennessee.—Andrew Johnson, William T. Senter, Julius W. Blackwell, Alvan Cullom, George W. Jones, Aaron V. Brown, David W. Dickinson, James H. Peyton, Cave Johnson, John B. Ashe, Milton Brown.
Ohio.—Alexander Duncan, John B. Weller, Robt. C. Schenck, Joseph Vance, Emery D. Potter, Joseph J. McDowell, John I. Vanmeter, Elias Florence, Heman A. Moore, Jacob Brinkerhoff, Samuel F. Vinton, Perley B. Johnson, Alexander Harper, Joseph Morris, James Mathews, Wm. C. McCauslin, Ezra Dean, Daniel R. Tilden, Joshua R. Giddings, H. R. Brinkerhoff.
Louisiana.—John Slidell, Alcée Labranche, John B. Dawson, P. E. Bossier.
Indiana.—Robt. Dale Owen, Thomas J. Henley, Thomas Smith, Caleb B. Smith, Wm. J. Brown, John W. Davis, Joseph A. Wright, John Pettit, Samuel C. Sample, Andrew Kennedy.
Illinois.—Robert Smith, John A. McClernand, Orlando B. Ficklin, John Wentworth, Stephen A. Douglass, Joseph P. Hoge, J. J. Hardin.
Alabama.—James Dellet, James E. Belser, Dixon H. Lewis, William W. Payne, George S. Houston, Reuben Chapman, Felix McConnell.
Mississippi.—Wm. H. Hammett, Robert W. Roberts, Jacob Thompson, Tilghman M. Tucker.
Missouri.—James M. Hughes, James H. Relfe, Gustavus B. Bower, James B. Bowlin, John Jameson.
Michigan.—Robert McClelland, Lucius Lyon, James B. Hunt.
Territorial Delegates.
Florida.—David Levy.
Wisconsin.—Henry Dodge.
Iowa.—Augustus C. Dodge.
The election of Speaker was the first business on the assembling of the Congress, and its result was the authentic exposition of the state of parties. Mr. John W. Jones, of Virginia, the democratic candidate, received 128 votes on the first ballot, and was elected—the whig candidate (Mr. John White, late Speaker) receiving 59. An adverse majority of more than two to one was the result to the whig party at the first election after the extra session of 1841—at the first election after that "log-cabin, hard-cider and coon-skin" campaign in which the whigs had carried the presidential election by 234 electoral votes against 60: so truly had the democratic senators foreseen the destruction of the party in the contests of the extra session of 1841. The Tyler party was "no where"—Mr. Wise alone being classified as such—the rest, so few in number as to have been called the "corporal's guard," had been left out of Congress by their constituents, or had received office from Mr. Tyler, and gone off. Mr. Caleb McNulty, of Ohio, also democratic, was elected clerk of the House, and by a vote of two to one, thus ousting an experienced and capable whig officer, in the person of Mr. Matthew St. Clair Clarke—a change which turned out to be unfortunate for the friends of the House, and mortifying to those who did it—the new clerk becoming a subject of indictment for embezzlement before his service was over.