1st Congress of the Confederate States of America
The 1st Congress of the Confederate States of America marks the first term of the Congress , the legislative assembly of the Confederate States of America . The members of this legislature were determined by elections in November 1861. In contrast to the Provisional Confederate Congress, which consisted of only one chamber, the congress consisted of two chambers, an upper house, the Senate, and a lower house, the House of Representatives.
Session periods
All sessions of the 1st Confederate Congress were held at the Capitol in Richmond , Virginia , the capital of the Confederate States.
- 1st session February 18, 1862 to April 21, 1862
- 2nd session August 18, 1862 to October 13, 1862
- 3rd session January 12, 1863 to May 1, 1863
- Fourth session from December 7, 1863 to February 17, 1864
management
senate
- Senate President : Vice President Alexander Hamilton Stephens
- Vice President ( pro tempore ): Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter of Virginia
House of Representatives
- Speaker of the House of Representatives : Thomas Stanley Bocock of Virginia - February 18, 1862 to March 18, 1865
- Deputy Speaker (Speaker pro tempore ): Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry from Alabama ( 1863 )
MPs
senate
- Clement Claiborne Clay
-
William Lowndes Yancey ( died July 23, 1863)
- Robert Jemison ( acceptance of the mandate on December 28, 1863 - by-election for the vacant mandate )
-
Robert Augustus Toombs (elected, acceptance of mandate refused)
- John Wood Lewis ( assumed office on April 7, 1862 - appointed to serve on a temporary basis )
- Herschel Vespasian Johnson ( assumption of the mandate on January 19, 1863 - by-election for the vacant mandate )
- Benjamin Harvey Hill
- John Bullock Clark
-
Robert Ludwell Yates Peyton ( died September 3, 1863)
- Waldo P. Johnson ( assumed office on December 24, 1863 - appointed to serve temporarily )
-
George Davis ( resigned January 1864, was appointed Attorney General )
- Edwin Godwin Reade ( assumption of mandate on January 22, 1864 - appointed to serve temporarily )
- William Theophilus Dortch
- Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter
-
William Ballard Preston ( died November 16, 1862)
- Allen T. Caperton ( acceptance of the mandate on January 22, 1864 - by-election for the vacant mandate )
House of Representatives
Ordered by constituencies
X : was already a member of the Provisional Confederate Congress
Alabama
- Thomas Jefferson Foster
- William Russell Smith
- John Perkins Ralls
- Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry X
- Francis Strother Lyon
- William Parish Chilton Sr. X
- David Clopton
- James L. Pugh
- Edmund Strother Dargan
Arkansas
Florida
-
James Baird Dawkins ( resigned December 8, 1862)
- John Marshall Martin ( acceptance of the mandate on March 25, 1863 - by-election for the vacant mandate )
- Robert Benjamin Hilton
Georgia
- Julian Hartridge
- Charles James Munnerlyn
-
Hines Holt ( resigned March 1, 1863 during / after the third session )
- Porter Ingram ( assumption of the mandate on January 12, 1864 - by-election for the vacant mandate )
- Augustus Holmes Kenan X
- David William Lewis
- William White Clark
- Robert Pleasant Trippe
- Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell
- Hardy Strickland
- Augustus Romaldus Wright X
Kentucky
- Willis Benson Do
- John Watkins Crockett
- Henry English Read
- George Washington Ewing X
- James Chrisman
- Theodore Legrand Burnett X
- Horatio Washington Bruce
- George Baird Hodge X
- Eli Metcalfe Bruce
- James William Moore
- Robert Jefferson Breckinridge Junior
- John Milton Elliott X
Louisiana
- Charles Jacques Villeré
- Charles Magill Conrad X
- Duncan Farrar Kenner X
- Lucius Jacques Dupré
- Henry Marshall X
- John Perkins, Jr. X
Mississippi
- Jeremiah Watkins Clapp
-
Reuben Davis ( resigned March 1, 1863 during / after the third session )
- William Dunbar Holder ( assumption of the mandate on January 21, 1864 - by-election for the vacant mandate )
- Israel Victor Welch
- Henry Cousins Chambers
- Otho Robards Singleton
- Ethelbert Barksdale
- John Jones McRae
Missouri
- William Mordecai Cooke X ( died September 3, 1863)
- Thomas Alexander Harris X
- Caspar Wistar Bell X
- Aaron H. Conrow X
- George Graham Vest X
- Thomas W. Freeman X
- The elected MP Hyer never took up his mandate, the constituency remained unrepresented during the entire first congressional election period.
North Carolina
- William Nathan Harrell Smith X
- Robert Rufus Bridgers
- Owen Rand Kenan
- Thomas David Smith McDowell X
- Archibald Hunter Arrington
- James Robert McLean
- Thomas Samuel Ashe
- William Lander
- Burgess Sidney Gaither
- Allen Turner Davidson X
- Abraham Watkins Venable X
South carolina
- John McQueen
- William Porcher Miles X
- Lewis Malone Ayer
-
Milledge Luke Bonham ( resigned October 13, 1862 after second session )
- William Dunlap Simpson ( assumption of the mandate on February 5, 1863 - by-election for the vacant mandate )
- James Farrow
- William Waters Boyce X
Tennessee
- Joseph Brown Heiskell ( resigned February 6, 1864)
- William Graham Swan
- William Henry Tibbs
- Erasmus Lee Gardenhire
- Henry Stuart Foote
- Meredith Poindexter Gentry
- George Washington Jones
- Thomas Menees
- John DeWitt Clinton X Atkins
- John Vines Wright
- David Maney Currin X
Texas
- John Allen Wilcox ( died February 7, 1864)
- Caleb Claiborne Herbert
- Peter W. Gray
- Franklin Barlow Sexton
- Malcolm Duncan Graham
- William Bacon Wright
Virginia
- Muscoe Russell Hunter Garnett ( died February 14, 1864)
- John Randolph Chambliss Sr.
- James Lyons
-
Roger Atkinson Pryor X ( resigned April 5, 1862)
- Charles Fenton Collier ( assumption of the mandate on August 18, 1862 - by-election for the vacant mandate )
- Thomas Stanley Bocock X
- John Goode
- James Philemon Holcombe
- Daniel Coleman DeJarnette
-
William Smith ( resigned April 4, 1863)
- David Funsten ( acceptance of the mandate on December 7, 1863 - by-election for the vacant mandate )
- Alexander Boteler X
- John Brown Baldwin
- Waller Redd Staples X
- Walter Preston X
-
Albert Gallatin Jenkins ( resigned April 21, 1862 after the first session )
- Samuel Augustine Miller ( assumption of the mandate on February 24, 1863 - by-election for the vacant mandate )
- Robert Johnston X
- Charles Wells Russell X
See also
Web links
- csawardept.com (English)