23rd United States Congress

The 23rd Congress of the United States , made up of the House and Senate , was the legislature of the United States . Its legislative period lasted from March 4, 1833 to March 4, 1835. All members of the House of Representatives and a third of the senators ( Class I ) were elected in the 1832 congressional elections. There were different majorities in the two chambers. In the Senate, the National Republican Party , whose supporters are sometimes referred to as anti-Jacksonians, had a majority. In the House of Representatives, the Democratic Party , whose supporters were then also known as the Jacksonians, had the most MPs. The congress met in the American capital Washington, DC At that time the United States consisted of 24 states. Andrew Jackson was the president . The distribution of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the 1830 census .

Important events

See also 1833 1834 and 1835

• March 4, 1833: beginning of the legislative period of the 23rd Congress. At the same time, President Jackson is inducted into his second term. Martin Van Buren becomes Vice President.
• During the legislative period, the nullification crisis with the state of South Carolina continues. After the compromise on this issue in March 1833, tensions gradually subsided. Otherwise the Indian Wars will continue.
• June 6, 1833: President Jackson becomes the first US President to take the railroad.
• August 12, 1833: Chicago is founded .
• March 28, 1834: The US Senate reprimands President Jackson for his policy of breaking up the Second Bank of the United States .
• April 14, 1834: Whig Party officially founded . One of the co-founders is Senator Henry Clay .
• January 30, 1835: Richard Lawrence assassins President Jackson and fails. It is the first assassination attempt on an American president.

Composition according to parties

senate

• Democratic Party (Jacksonians): 19
• National-Republican Party (Anti-Jacksonians): 27
• Others: 2 ( Nullifiers from South Carolina)
• Vacant: 0

Total: 48 at the end of the legislative period

House of Representatives

• Democratic Party (Jacksonians): 143
• National-Republican Party (Anti-Jacksonians): 62
• Anti-Masonic Party : 25
• Others: 8 (mostly Nullifiers from South Carolina)
• Vacant: 2

Total: 240 at the end of the legislative period.

There were also three congressional delegates who were not entitled to vote

Public officials

senate

• President of the Senate : Martin Van Buren (D)
• President per tempore : Hugh Lawson White (NR) until December 15, 1833, then George Poindexter (NR) between June 28, 1834 to November 30, 1834, and finally John Tyler for one day on March 3, 1835.

House of Representatives

• House Speaker : Andrew Stevenson (D)

Senate members

The following senators represented their respective states in the 23rd Congress:

Alabama 2. William R. King (J) 3. Gabriel Moore (J) Connecticut 1. Nathan Smith (AJ) 3. Gideon Tomlinson (AJ) Delaware 1. Arnold Naudain (AJ) 2. John Middleton Clayton (AJ) Georgia 2. George Troup (J) until November 8, 1833 John Pendleton King (J) from November 21, 1833 3. John Forsyth (J) until July 27, 1834 Alfred Cuthbert from January 12, 1835 Illinois 2. John McCracken Robinson (J) 3. Elias Kane (J) Indiana 1. John Tipton (J) 3. William Hendricks (AJ) Kentucky 2. George M. Bibb (J) 3. Henry Clay (AJ) Louisiana 2. George A. Waggaman (AJ) 3. Josiah S. Johnston (AJ) until May 19, 1833 Alexander Porter (AJ) from December 19, 1833 Maine 1. Ether Shepley (J) 2. Peleg Sprague (AJ) until January 1, 1835 John Ruggles (J) from January 20, 1835 Maryland 1. Joseph Kent (AJ) 3. Ezekiel F. Chambers (AJ) until December 20, 1834 Robert Henry Goldsborough (AJ) from January 13, 1835 Massachusetts 1. Daniel Webster (AJ) 2. Nathaniel Silsbee (AJ) Mississippi 1. John Black (J) 2. George Poindexter (AJ)

Missouri 1. Thomas Hart Benton (J) 3. Alexander Buckner (J) until June 5, 1833 Lewis F. Linn (J) from October 25, 1833 New Hampshire 2. Samuel Bell (AJ) 3. Isaac Hill (J) New Jersey 1. Samuel L. Southard (AJ) 2. Theodore Frelinghuysen (AJ) new York 1. Nathaniel Pitcher Tallmadge (J) 3. Silas Wright (J) North Carolina 2. Bedford Brown (J) 3. Willie Person Mangum (AJ) Ohio 1. Thomas Morris (J) 3. Thomas Ewing (AJ) Pennsylvania 1. Samuel McKean (J) 3. William Wilkins (J) until June 30, 1834 James Buchanan (J) from December 6, 1834 Rhode Island 1. Asher Robbins (AJ) 2. Nehemiah R. Knight (AJ) South carolina 2. John C. Calhoun (N = Nullifier) 3. William C. Preston (N) from November 26, 1833 Tennessee 1. Felix Grundy (J) 2. Hugh Lawson White (J) Vermont 1. Benjamin Swift (AJ) 3. Samuel Prentiss (AJ) Virginia 1. John Tyler (AJ) 2. William Cabell Rives (J) until February 22, 1834 Benjamin W. Leigh (AJ) from February 26, 1834

Members of the House of Representatives

The following congressmen represented the interests of their respective states in the 23rd Congress:

Alabama 5 constituencies 1. Clement Comer Clay (J) 2. John McKinley (J) 3. Samuel Wright Mardis (J) 4. Dixon Hall Lewis (N) = Nullifier Party 5. John Murphy (J) Connecticut All MPs were state-elected. Noyes Barber (AJ) William W. Ellsworth (AJ) until July 8, 1834 Joseph Trumbull (AJ) from December 1, 1834 Jabez W. Huntington (AJ) until August 16, 1834 Phineas Miner (AJ) from December 1, 1834 Samuel A. Foot (AJ) until May 9, 1834 Ebenezer Jackson (AJ) from December 1, 1834 Samuel Tweedy (AJ) Ebenezer Young (AJ) Delaware state-wide choice John J. Milligan (AJ) Georgia State Election Augustin Smith Clayton (J) John E. Coffee (J) Thomas Flournoy Foster (J) Roger Lawson Gamble (J) George Rockingham Gilmer (J) Seaborn Jones (J) William Schley (J) James Moore Wayne (J) until January 13, 1835. Thereafter, the seat remained vacant Richard Henry Wilde (J) Illinois 3 constituencies 1. Charles Slade (J) until July 26, 1834 John Reynolds from December 1, 1834 2. Zadok Casey (J) 3. Joseph Duncan (J) until September 21, 1834 William L. May (J) from December 1, 1834 Indiana 7 constituencies 1. Ratliff Boon (J) 2. John Ewing (AJ) 3. John Carr (J) 4. Amos Lane (J) 5. Johnathan McCarty (J) 6. George L. Kinnard (J) 7. Edward A. Hannegan (J) Kentucky 13 constituencies 1. Chittenden Lyon (J) 2. Albert Gallatin Hawes (J) 3. Christopher Tompkins (AJ) 4. Martin Beaty (AJ) 5. Robert Letcher (AJ) 6. Thomas Chilton (AJ) 7. Benjamin Hardin (AJ) 8. Patrick H. Pope (J) 9. James Love (AJ) 10. Chilton Allan (AJ) 11. Amos Davis (AJ) 12. Thomas Alexander Marshall (AJ) 13. Richard Mentor Johnson (J) Louisiana 3 constituencies 1. Edward White (AJ) until November 15, 1834 Henry Johnson (AJ) from December 1, 1834 2. Philemon Thomas (J) 3. Henry Adams Bullard (AJ) until January 4, 1834 Rice Garland (AJ) from April 28, 1834 Maine 8 constituencies 1. Rufus McIntire (J) 2. Francis Smith (J) 3. Edward Kavanagh (J) 4. George Evans (AJ) 5. Moses Mason (J) 6. Leonard Jarvis (J) 7. Joseph Hall (J) 8. Gorham Parks (J) Maryland 8 constituencies. 1. Littleton Purnell Dennis (AJ) until April 14, 1834 John Nevett Steele (AJ) from June 9, 1834 2. Richard Bennett Carmichael (J) 3. James Turner (J) 4. James P. Heath (J) 5. Isaac McKim (J) 6. William Cost Johnson (AJ) 7. Francis Thomas (J) 8. John Truman Stoddert (J) Massachusetts 12 constituencies 1. Benjamin Gorham (AJ) 2. Rufus Choate (AJ) until June 30, 1834 Stephen C. Phillips (AJ) from December 1, 1834 3. Gayton P. Osgood (J) 4. Edward Everett (AJ) 5. John Davis (AJ) until January 14, 1834 Levi Lincoln Jr. (AJ) from March 5, 1834 6. George Grennell (AJ) 7. George N. Briggs (AJ) 8. Isaac C. Bates (AJ) 9. William Jackson (AM) 10. William Baylies (AJ) 11. John Reed (AJ) 12. John Quincy Adams (AM) Mississippi State Election Franklin E. Plummer (J) Harry Cage (J) Missouri State Election William Henry Ashley (J) John Bull (AJ) New Hampshire All MPs were state-elected. Benning M. Bean (J) Robert Burns (J) Joseph M. Harper (J) Henry Hubbard (J) Franklin Pierce (J) New Jersey All MPs were elected state-wide Philemon Dickerson (J) Samuel Fowler (J) Thomas Lee (J) James Parker (J) Ferdinand Schureman Schenck (J) William Norton Shinn (J) New York 33 constituencies. The 3rd constituency had four MPs and the 8th, 17th, 22nd and 23rd two each. 1. Abel Huntington (J) 2. Isaac B. Van Houten (J) 3A. Churchill C. Cambreleng (J) 3B. Cornelius Van Wyck Lawrence (J) until May 14, 1834 John J. Morgan (J) from December 1, 1834 3C. Dudley Selden (J) until July 1, 1834 Charles G. Ferris (J) from December 1, 1834 3D. Campbell P. White (J) 4. Aaron Ward (J) 5. Abraham Bockee (J) 6. John Brown (J) 7. Charles Bodle (J) 8A. John Adams (J) 8B. Aaron Van der Poel (J) 9. Job Pierson (J) 10. Gerrit Y. Lansing (J) 11. John Cramer (J) 12. Henry C. Martindale (AM) 13. Reuben Whallon (J) 14. Ransomware H. Gillet (J) 15. Charles McVean (J) 16. Abijah Mann (J) 17A. Samuel Beardsley (J) 17B. Joel Turrill (J) 18. Daniel Wardwell (J) 19. Sherman Page (J) 20. Noadiah Johnson (J) 21. Henry Mitchell (J) 22A. Nicoll Halsey (J) 22B. Samuel G. Hathaway (J) 23A. William K. Fuller (J) 23B. William Taylor (J) 24. Rowland Day (J) 25. Samuel Clark (J) 26. John Dickson (AM) 27. Edward Howell (J) 28. Frederick Whittlesey (AM) 29. George W. Lay (AM) 30. Philo C. Fuller (AM) 31. Abner Hazeltine (AM) 32nd Millard Fillmore (AM) 33. Gideon Hard (AM)

North Carolina 13 constituencies 1. William Biddle Shepard (AJ) 2. Jesse Atherton Bynum (J) 3. Thomas H. Hall (J) 4. Jesse Speight (J) 5. James Iver McKay (J) 6. Micajah Thomas Hawkins 7. Edmund Deberry (AJ) 8. Daniel Laurens Barringer (AJ) 9. Augustine Henry Shepperd (AJ) 10. Abraham Rencher (AJ) 11. Henry William Connor (J) 12. James Graham (AJ) 13. Lewis Williams (AJ) Ohio 19 constituencies 1. Robert Todd Lytle (J) with one interruption between March 11th and December 26th, 1834 2. Taylor Webster (J) 3. Joseph Halsey Crane (AJ) 4. Thomas Corwin (AJ) 5. Thomas L. Hamer (J) 6. Samuel Finley Vinton (AJ) 7. William Allen (J) 8. Jeremiah McLene (J) 9. John Chaney (J) 10. Joseph Vance (AJ) 11. James Martin Bell (AJ) 12. Robert Mitchell (J) 13. David Spangler (AJ) 14. William Patterson (J) 15. Jonathan Sloane (AM) 16. Elisha Whittlesey (AM) 17. John Thomson (J) 18. Benjamin Jones (J) 19. Humphrey H. Leavitt (J) until July 10, 1834 Daniel Kilgore from December 1, 1834 Pennsylvania 25 constituencies. The 2nd constituency had MPs and the 4th three. 1. Joel Barlow Sutherland (J) 2A. Horace Binney (AJ) 2 B. James Harper (AJ) 3. John Goddard Watmough (AJ) 4A. Edward Darlington (AM) 4B. William Hiester (AM) 4C. David Potts (AM) 5. Joel Keith Mann (J) 6. Robert Ramsey (J) 7. David Douglas Wagener (J) 8. Henry King (J) 9. Henry AP Muhlenberg (J) 10. William Clark (AM) 11. Charles Augustus Barnitz (AM) 12. George Chambers (AM) 13. Jesse Miller (J) 14. Joseph Henderson (J) 15. Andrew Beaumont (J) 16A. Joseph Biles Anthony (J) 17. John Laporte (J) 18. George Burd (AJ) 19. Richard Coulter (J) 20. Andrew Stewart (AM) 21. Thomas McKennan (AM) 22. Harmar Denny (AM) 23. Samuel Smith Harrison (J) 24. John Banks (AM) 25. John Galbraith (J) Rhode Island All MPs were state-elected. Tristam Burges (AJ) Dutee Jerauld Pearce (AM) South Carolina 9 constituencies 1. Henry L. Pinckney (N) = Nullifier Party 2. William J. Grayson (N) 3. Thomas D. Singleton (N) until November 25, 1833 Robert B. Campbell (N) from February 27, 1834 4. John Myers Fields (N) 5. George McDuffie (N) until 1834, exact date unknown Francis Wilkinson Pickens (N) from December 8, 1834 6. Warren R. Davis (N) until January 29, 1835, after which the seat remained vacant 7. William K. Clowney (N) 8. James Blair (J) until April 1, 1834 Richard Irvine Manning (J) from December 8, 1834 9. John K. Griffin (N) Tennessee 13 constituencies 1. John Blair (J) 2. Samuel Bunch (J) 3. Luke Lea (J) 4. James Israel Standifer (J) 5. John B. Forester (J) 6. Balie Peyton (J) 7. John Bell (J) 8. David W. Dickinson (J) 9. James K. Polk (J) 10. William Marshall Inge (J) 11. Cave Johnson (J) 12. Davy Crockett (AJ) 13. William Claiborne Dunlap (J) Vermont 5 constituencies 1. Hiland Hall (AJ) 2. William Slade (AM) 3. Horace Everett (AJ) 4. Herman Allen (AJ) 5. Benjamin F. Deming (AM) until July 11, 1834 Henry Fisk Janes (AM) from December 2, 1834 Virginia 21 constituencies 1. George Loyall (J) 2. John Y. Mason (J) 3. William S. Archer (J) 4. James Gholson (AJ) 5. John Randolph (J) until May 24, 1833 Thomas Bouldin (J) from December 2, 1833 to February 11, 1834 James Bouldin (J) from March 28, 1834 6. Thomas Davenport (AJ) 7. Nathaniel Claiborne (J) 8. Henry A. Wise (J) 9. William P. Taylor (AJ) 10. Joseph Chinn (J) 11. Andrew Stevenson (J) until June 2, 1834 John Robertson (AJ) from December 8, 1834 12. William F. Gordon (J) 13. John M. Patton (J) 14. Charles F. Mercer (AJ) 15. Edward Lucas (J) 16. James MH Beale (J) 17. Samuel M. Moore (AJ) 18. John H. Fulton (J) 19. William McComas (J) 20. John James Allen (AJ) 21. Edgar Campbell Wilson (AJ)

Members of the House of Representatives who are not entitled to vote:

• Arkansas Territory : Ambrose Hundley Sevier (J)
• Florida Territory : Joseph M. White
• Michigan Territory : Lucius Lyon (J)

Web links

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