28th United States Congress - political parties

The Twenty-eighth 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 1843 to March 3 1845, during the last two years of the administration of U.S. President John Tyler.

The apportionment of seats in this House of Representatives was based on the Sixth Census of the United States in 1840. The Senate had a Whig majority, and the House had a Democratic majority.

This article supplements the main article with a list of the members by political party.

Main article: 28th United States Congress
See also: 28th United States Congress - State Delegations
See also: United States House elections, 1842

The list below is arranged by chamber, then by political party. Members are shown in alphabetical order.

Dates of sessions

March 4 1843 - March 3 1845

  • First session: December 4 1843 - June 17 1844
  • Second session: December 2 1844 - March 3 1845 — a lame duck session

Previous congress: 27th Congress
Next congress: 29th Congress

Party summary

The count below identifies 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.

Senate
  • Democratic: 23
  • Whig: 29 (majority)

TOTAL members: 52
House of Representatives
  • Democratic: 147 (majority)
  • Whig: 72
  • Law and Order: 2
  • Independent Democrat: 1
  • Independent Whig: 1

TOTAL members: 223

Senate

Senators were elected by the state legislatures every two years, with one-third beginning new six year terms with each Congress.

Democratic

A-F
  • William Allen (1803-1879), Ohio
  • Chester Ashley (1790-1848), Arkansas …elected to fill vacancy, November 8 1844.
  • David R. Atchison (1807-1886), Missouri …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 4 1844.
  • Charles G. Atherton (1804-1853), New Hampshire
  • Arthur P. Bagby (1794-1858), Alabama
  • Thomas H. Benton (1782-1858), Missouri
  • Sidney Breese (1800-1878), Illinois
  • James Buchanan (1791-1868), Pennsylvania
  • Walter T. Colquitt (1799-1855), Georgia
  • Daniel S. Dickinson (1800-1866), New York …appointed to fill vacancy, November 30 1844.
  • John A. Dix (1798-1879), New York …elected to fill vacancy, January 18 1845.
  • John Fairfield (1797-1847), Maine
  • Henry A. Foster (1800-1889), New York …appointed to fill vacancy, November 30 1844.
  • William S. Fulton (1795-1844), Arkansas …died August 15 1844.
G-L
  • Edward A. Hannegan (1807-1859), Indiana
  • William H. Haywood, Jr. (1801-1852), North Carolina
  • Daniel E. Huger (1779-1854), South Carolina …elected to fill vacancy from preceding Congress, March 4 1843, resigned March 3 1845.
  • William R. D. King (1786-1853), Alabama …resigned April 14 1844.
  • Dixon H. Lewis (1802-1848), Alabama …appointed to fill vacancy, April 22 1844, subsequently elected.
  • Lewis F. Linn (1796-1843), Missouri …died October 3 1843.
M-R
  • George McDuffie (1790-1851), South Carolina
  • Samuel McRoberts (1799-1843), Illinois …died March 27 1843.
  • John M. Niles (1787-1856), Connecticut
S-Z
  • James Semple (1798-1866), Illinois …appointed to fill vacancy, August 16 1843, subsequently elected.
  • Ambrose H. Sevier (1801-1848), Arkansas
  • Daniel Sturgeon (1789-1878), Pennsylvania
  • Benjamin Tappan (1773-1857), Ohio
  • Robert J. Walker (1801-1869), Mississippi
  • Levi Woodbury (1789-1851), New Hampshire
  • Silas Wright, Jr. (1795-1847), New York …resigned November 26 1844.

Whig

A-F
  • William S. Archer (1789-1855), Virginia
  • Alexander Barrow (1801-1846), Louisiana
  • Isaac C. Bates (1779-1845), Massachusetts
  • Richard H. Bayard (1796-1868), Delaware
  • John Mcpherson Berrien (1781-1856), Georgia
  • Rufus Choate (1799-1859), Massachusetts
  • Thomas Clayton (1777-1854), Delaware
  • John J. Crittenden (1786-1863), Kentucky
  • William L. Dayton (1807-1864), New Jersey
  • George Evans (1797-1867), Maine
  • Ephraim H. Foster (1794-1854), Tennessee …elected to fill vacancy in class, October 17 1843.
G-L
  • John Henderson (1797-1857), Mississippi
  • Jabez W. Huntington (1788-1847), Connecticut
  • Spencer Jarnagin (1792-1853), Tennessee …elected to fill vacancy, October 17 1843.
  • Henry Johnson (1783-1864), Louisiana …elected to fill vacancy in class, February 12 1844.
M-R
  • Willie P. Mangum (1792-1861), North Carolina
  • William D. Merrick (1793-1857), Maryland
  • Jacob W. Miller (1800-1862), New Jersey
  • James T. Morehead (1797-1854), Kentucky
  • James A. Pearce (1805-1862), Maryland
  • Samuel S. Phelps (1793-1855), Vermont
  • Augustus S. Porter (1798-1872), Michigan
  • William C. Rives (1793-1868), Virginia
S-Z
  • James F. Simmons (1795-1864), Rhode Island
  • William Sprague (1799-1856), Rhode Island …resigned January 17 1844.
  • Nathaniel P. Tallmadge (1795-1864), New York …resigned June 17 1844.
  • William Upham (1792-1853), Vermont
  • Albert S. White (1803-1864), Indiana
  • William Woodbridge (1780-1861), Michigan

Law and Order

  • John B. Francis (1791-1864), Rhode Island …elected to fill vacancy, January 25 1844.

House of Representatives

Members of the House of Representatives were elected by popular vote, variously to single member districts or at-large.

Democratic

A-B-C
  • Joseph H. Anderson (1800-1870), New York
  • Archibald H. Arrington (1809-1872), North Carolina
  • Archibald Atkinson (1792-1872), Virginia
  • Thomas H. Bayly (1810-1856), Virginia …elected to fill vacancy, seated May 6 1844.
  • Samuel Beardsley (1790-1860), New York …resigned March 6 1844.
  • James E. Belser (1805-1859), Alabama
  • Charles S. Benton (1810-1882), New York
  • Benjamin A. Bidlack (1804-1849), Pennsylvania
  • Edward J. Black (1806-1846), Georgia
  • James Black (1793-1872), Pennsylvania
  • James A. Black (1793-1848), South Carolina
  • Julius W. Blackwell (1797c- ), Tennessee
  • Pierre E. J. B. Bossier (1797-1844), Louisiana …died April 24 1844.
  • Gustavus M. Bower (1790-1864), Missouri
  • James B. Bowlin (1804-1874), Missouri
  • Linn Boyd (1800-1859), Kentucky
  • Henry R. Brinkerhoff (1787-1844), Ohio …died April 30 1844.
  • Jacob Brinkerhoff (1810-1880), Ohio
  • Richard Brodhead (1811-1863), Pennsylvania
  • Aaron V. Brown (1795-1859), Tennessee
  • William J. Brown (1805-1857), Indiana
  • Edmund Burke (1809-1882), New Hampshire
  • Armistead Burt (1802-1883), South Carolina
  • George A. Caldwell (1814-1866), Kentucky
  • John Campbell (1795-1845), South Carolina
  • Levi D. Carpenter (1802-1856), New York …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 2 1844.
  • Jeremiah E. Cary (1803-1888), New York
  • Shepard Cary (1805-1866), Maine …seated May 10 1844.
  • George S. Catlin (1808-1851), Connecticut
  • Augustus A. Chapman (1803-1876), Virginia
  • Reuben Chapman (1799-1882), Alabama
  • James G. Clinton (1804-1849), New York
  • Howell Cobb (1815-1868), Georgia
  • Walter Coles (1790-1857), Virginia
  • Mark A. Cooper (1800-1885), Georgia …resigned April 14 1844.
  • Edward Cross (1798-1887), Arkansas
  • Alvan Cullom (1797-1877), Tennessee
D-E-F
  • Amasa Dana (1792-1867), New York
  • John R. J. Daniel (1802-1868), North Carolina
  • John W. Davis (1799-1859), Indiana
  • Richard D. Davis (1799-1871), New York
  • John B. Dawson (1798-1845), Louisiana
  • Ezra Dean (1795-1872), Ohio
  • Paul Dillingham, Jr. (1799-1891), Vermont
  • Stephen A. Douglas (1813-1861), Illinois
  • George C. Dromgoole (1797-1847), Virginia
  • Alexander Duncan (1788-1853), Ohio
  • Robert P. Dunlap (1794-1859), Maine
  • Chesselden Ellis (1808-1854), New York
  • Lucius Q. C. Elmer (1793-1883), New Jersey
  • Isaac G. Farlee (1787-1855), New Jersey
  • Orlando B. Ficklin (1808-1886), Illinois
  • Henry D. Foster (1808-1880), Pennsylvania
  • Richard French (1792-1854), Kentucky
  • George Fuller (1802-1888), Pennsylvania …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 2 1844.
G-H-I
  • Thomas W. Gilmer (1802-1844), Virginia …resigned February 16 1844.
  • Byram Green (1786-1865), New York
  • John P. Hale (1806-1873), New Hampshire
  • Hannibal Hamlin (1809-1891), Maine
  • William H. Hammett (1799-1861), Mississippi
  • Hugh A. Haralson (1805-1854), Georgia
  • Samuel Hays (1783-1868), Pennsylvania
  • Thomas J. Henley (1810-1865), Indiana
  • Joshua Herrick (1793-1874), Maine
  • Joseph P. Hoge (1810-1891), Illinois
  • Isaac E. Holmes (1796-1867), South Carolina
  • George W. Hopkins (1804-1861), Virginia
  • George S. Houston (1811-1879), Alabama
  • Edmund W. Hubard (1806-1878), Virginia
  • William S. Hubbell (1801-1873), New York
  • James M. Hughes (1809-1861), Missouri
  • Orville Hungerford (1790-1851), New York
  • James B. Hunt (1799-1857), Michigan
  • Charles J. Ingersoll (1782-1862), Pennsylvania
J-K-L
  • John Jameson (1802-1857), Missouri
  • Andrew Johnson (1808-1875), Tennessee
  • Cave Johnson (1793-1866), Tennessee
  • George W. Jones (1806-1884), Tennessee
  • John W. Jones (1791-1848), Virginia
  • Andrew Kennedy (1810-1847), Indiana
  • Preston King (1806-1865), New York
  • Littleton Kirkpatrick (1797-1859), New Jersey
  • Alcée L. La Branche (1806-1861), Louisiana
  • John B. Lamar (1812-1862), Georgia …resigned July 29 1843, before Congress assembled.
  • Moses G. Leonard (1809-1899), New York
  • Dixon H. Lewis (1802-1848), Alabama …resigned April 22 1844.
  • William Lucas (1800-1877), Virginia
  • John H. Lumpkin (1812-1860), Georgia
  • Lucius Lyon (1800-1851), Michigan
M-N-O
  • William B. Maclay (1812-1882), New York
  • James Mathews (1805-1887), Ohio
  • William C. McCauslen (1796-1863), Ohio
  • Robert McClelland (1807-1880), Michigan
  • John A. McClernand (1812-1900), Illinois
  • Felix G. McConnell (1809-1846), Alabama
  • Joseph J. McDowell (1800-1877), Ohio
  • James I. McKay (1793-1853), North Carolina
  • John Millen (1804-1843), Georgia …died October 15 1843, before Congress assembled.
  • Heman Allen Moore (1809-1844), Ohio …died April 3 1844.
  • Joseph Morris (1795-1854), Ohio
  • Isaac E. Morse (1809-1866), Louisiana …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 2 1844.
  • Henry C. Murphy (1810-1882), New York
  • Moses Norris, Jr. (1799-1855), New Hampshire
  • Robert D. Owen (1801-1877), Indiana
P-Q-R
  • William Parmenter (1789-1866), Massachusetts
  • William W. Payne (1807-1874), Alabama
  • John Pettit (1807-1877), Indiana
  • Emery D. Potter (1804-1896), Ohio
  • Zadock Pratt (1790-1871), New York
  • Smith M. Purdy (1796-1870), New York
  • George O. Rathbun (1803-1870), New York
  • Almon H. Read (1790-1844), Pennsylvania …died June 3 1844.
  • John R. Reding (1805-1892), New Hampshire
  • David S. Reid (1813-1891), North Carolina
  • James H. Relfe (1791-1863), Missouri
  • R. Barnwell Rhett (1800-1876), South Carolina
  • John Ritter (1779-1851), Pennsylvania
  • Robert W. Roberts (1784-1865), Mississippi
  • Orville Robinson (1801-1882), New York
  • Jeremiah Russell (1786-1867), New York
S-T-U-V
  • Romulus M. Saunders (1791-1867), North Carolina
  • David L. Seymour (1803-1867), New York
  • Thomas H. Seymour (1807-1868), Connecticut
  • Samuel Simons (1792-1847), Connecticut
  • Richard F. Simpson (1798-1882), South Carolina
  • John Slidell (1793-1871), Louisiana
  • John T. Smith ( - ), Pennsylvania
  • Robert Smith (1802-1867), Illinois
  • Robert B. Smith (1800-1876), South Carolina
  • Thomas Smith (1799-1876), Indiana
  • Henry St. John (1783-1869), Ohio
  • Lewis Steenrod (1810-1862), Virginia
  • Lemuel Stetson (1804-1868), New York
  • John Stewart (1795-1860), Connecticut
  • William H. Stiles (1808-1865), Georgia
  • Alfred P. Stone (1813-1865), Ohio …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 2 1844.
  • James W. Stone (1813-1854), Kentucky
  • Selah B. Strong (1792-1872), New York
  • George Sykes (1802-1880), New Jersey
  • William Taylor (1788-1846), Virginia
  • Jacob Thompson (1810-1885), Mississippi
  • John W. Tibbatts (1802-1852), Kentucky
  • Tilghman M. Tucker (1802-1859), Mississippi
W-X-Y-Z
  • John B. Weller (1812-1875), Ohio
  • John Wentworth (1815-1888), Illinois
  • Horace Wheaton (1803-1882), New York
  • Benjamin White (1790-1860), Maine …seated December 2 1844.
  • William Wilkins (1779-1865), Pennsylvania …resigned February 14 1844.
  • Henry Williams (1805-1887), Massachusetts
  • Henry A. Wise (1806-1876), Virginia …resigned February 12 1844.
  • Joseph A. Woodward (1806-1885), South Carolina
  • Joseph A. Wright (1810-1867), Indiana
  • William L. Yancey (1814-1863), Alabama …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 2 1844.
  • Jacob S. Yost (1801-1872), Pennsylvania

Whig

A-B-C
  • Amos Abbott (1786-1868), Massachusetts
  • John Quincy Adams (1767-1848), Massachusetts
  • John B. Ashe (1810-1857), Tennessee
  • Osmyn Baker (1800-1875), Massachusetts
  • Daniel D. Barnard (1797-1861), New York
  • Daniel M. Barringer (1806-1873), North Carolina
  • Francis Brengle (1807-1846), Maryland
  • Jeremiah Brown (1785-1858), Pennsylvania
  • Milton Brown (1804-1883), Tennessee
  • Joseph Buffington (1803-1872), Pennsylvania
  • Barker Burnell (1798-1843), Massachusetts …died June 15 1843, before Congress assembled.
  • Charles H. Carroll (1794-1865), New York
  • John M. S. Causin (1811-1861), Maryland
  • Absalom H. Chappell (1801-1878), Georgia …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 4 1843.
  • Samuel Chilton (1804-1867), Virginia
  • Duncan L. Clinch (1787-1849), Georgia …elected to fill vacancy, seated February 15 1844.
  • Thomas L. Clingman (1812-1897), North Carolina
  • Jacob Collamer (1791-1865), Vermont
D-E-F
  • Cornelius Darragh (1809-1854), Pennsylvania …elected to fill vacancy, seated March 26 1844.
  • Garrett Davis (1801-1872), Kentucky
  • Edmund Deberry (1787-1859), North Carolina
  • James Dellet (1788-1848), Alabama
  • John Dickey (1794-1853), Pennsylvania
  • David W. Dickinson (1808-1845), Tennessee
  • Hamilton Fish (1808-1893), New York
  • Elias Florence (1797-1880), Ohio
  • Solomon Foot (1802-1866), Vermont
  • Henry Frick (1795-1844), Pennsylvania …died March 1 1844.
G-H-I
  • Joshua R. Giddings (1795-1864), Ohio
  • William L. Goggin (1807-1870), Virginia …elected to fill vacancy, seated May 10 1844.
  • Willis Green ( - ), Kentucky
  • Henry Grider (1796-1866), Kentucky
  • Joseph Grinnell (1788-1885), Massachusetts …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 7 1843.
  • Edward S. Hamlin (1808-1894), Ohio …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 2 1844.
  • John J. Hardin (1810-1847), Illinois
  • Alexander Harper (1786-1860), Ohio
  • Charles Hudson (1795-1881), Massachusetts
  • Washington Hunt (1811-1867), New York
  • Joseph R. Ingersoll (1786-1868), Pennsylvania
  • James Irvin (1800-1862), Pennsylvania
J-K-L
  • Michael H. Jenks (1795-1867), Pennsylvania
  • Perley B. Johnson (1798-1870), Ohio
  • John P. Kennedy (1795-1870), Maryland
  • Daniel P. King (1801-1850), Massachusetts
M-N-O
  • George P. Marsh (1801-1882), Vermont
  • Abraham R. McIlvaine (1804-1863), Pennsylvania
  • Edward Joy Morris (1815-1881), Pennsylvania
  • Freeman H. Morse (1807-1891), Maine
  • William A. Moseley (1798-1873), New York
  • Willoughby Newton (1802-1874), Virginia
P-Q-R
  • Thomas J. Patterson (1808c- ), New York
  • Joseph H. Peyton (1808-1845), Tennessee
  • J. Phillips Phoenix (1788-1859), New York
  • James Pollock (1810-1890), Pennsylvania …elected to fill vacancy, seated April 23 1844.
  • Jacob A. Preston (1796-1868), Maryland
  • Alexander Ramsey (1815-1903), Pennsylvania
  • Kenneth Rayner (1808-1884), North Carolina
  • Charles M. Reed (1803-1871), Pennsylvania
  • Julius Rockwell (1805-1888), Massachusetts
  • George B. Rodney (1803-1883), Delaware
  • Charles Rogers (1800-1874), New York
S-T-U-V
  • Samuel C. Sample (1796-1855), Indiana
  • Robert C. Schenck (1809-1890), Ohio
  • William T. Senter (1801-1848), Tennessee
  • Luther Severance (1797-1855), Maine
  • Albert Smith (1805-1870), New York
  • Caleb B. Smith (1808-1864), Indiana
  • Thomas A. Spence (1810-1877), Maryland
  • Alexander H. Stephens (1812-1883), Georgia …elected to fill vacancy, seated December 4 1843.
  • Andrew Stewart (1791-1872), Pennsylvania
  • George W. Summers (1804-1868), Virginia
  • William P. Thomasson (1797-1882), Kentucky
  • Daniel R. Tilden (1804-1890), Ohio
  • Asher Tyler (1798-1875), New York
  • Joseph Vance (1786-1852), Ohio
  • John I. Vanmeter (1798-1875), Ohio
  • Samuel F. Vinton (1792-1862), Ohio
W-X-Y-Z
  • John Wethered (1809-1888), Maryland
  • John White (1802-1845), Kentucky
  • Robert C. Winthrop (1809-1894), Massachusetts

Independent Democratic

  • Henry Nes (1799-1850), Pennsylvania

Independent Whig

  • William Wright (1794-1866), New Jersey

Law and Order

  • Henry Y. Cranston (1789-1864), Rhode Island
  • Elisha R. Potter (1811-1882), Rhode Island