List of Senate Members of the 11th United States Congress

The senators in the 11th Congress of the United States were one-third in 1808 and 1809 re-elected. Before the 17th Amendment was passed in 1913, the Senate was not directly elected, but the Senators were appointed by the state parliaments. Each state elects two senators who belong to different classes . The term of office is six years, every two years one of the three classes is elected for the seats. Two thirds of the Senate therefore consists of senators whose term of office is still in force.

The term of office of the 11th Congress ran from March 4, 1809 to March 3, 1811, its first session took place from May 22 to June 28, 1809 in Washington, DC , the second period from November 27, 1809 to November 1 May 1810, the third from December 3, 1810 to March 3, 1811. Before that, a special session took place from March 4 to 7, 1809.

Composition and changes

At the end of his term in office, there were 28 Republicans (now usually called the Democratic Republican Party ) and six federalists in the 10th Congress . The Republicans lost one seat to the federalists in the election. In Maryland and Tennessee , parliaments failed to vote in time, but incumbents were temporarily appointed as successors and elected later that year. Edward Tiffin resigned at the end of the 10th Congress, thereby the majority of Republicans briefly fell to 26 against seven federalists, but was at the beginning of the first session at 27 to seven, since the governor of Ohio Stanley Griswold appointed Tiffin to succeed. Two deaths and several resignations required by-elections. These did not change the party relationship until June 1810. With the election of Charles Cutts in New Hampshire , who is referred to by most sources as a federalist, the ratio was 26 Republicans and eight federalists, where it remained until the end of the 11th Congress. There are sources, however, according to which Cutts is attributed to the Republicans.

Special functions

Under the United States Constitution , the vice president is the chairman of the Senate without being a member. In the event of a tie, his vote is decisive. During the 11th Congress, George Clinton was Vice President. Contrary to current practice, the vice president actually presided over the Senate meetings until the late 19th century. A senator was elected pro tempore president, who assumed the chairmanship in the absence of the vice-president. From March 4 to May 21, 1809, John Milledge, elected by the 10th Congress, was pro tempore president. From June 26 to December 18, 1809, Andrew Gregg was President pro tempore, from February 28 to March 2, and from April 17 to December 11, 1810, John Gaillard , from February 23, 1811 to the end of Congress on March 3, 1811 John Pope , who remained in the 12th Congress until November 3, 1811.

List of Senators

Under Party it is noted whether a senator is assigned to the Federalist Party or the Republican Party , under State the lists of the senators of the respective state are linked. The regular term of office depends on the Senate class : Senators of class I were elected until March 3, 1815, those of class II until March 3, 1811 and those of class III until March 3, 1813. The date indicates when the corresponding Senator was admitted to the Senate, any previous terms of office not taken into account. Under Sen. is the consecutive number of the senators in chronological order; the lower this is, the greater the senator's seniority . The table can be sorted with the arrow keys.

senator	Political party	Country	class	date	Sen.	annotation
James Hillhouse	federalist	Connecticut	I.	May 18, 1796	059	resigned June 10, 1810
Samuel W. Dana	federalist	Connecticut	I.	May 10, 1810	157	elected to succeed Hillhouse
Chauncey Goodrich	federalist	Connecticut	III	October 25, 1807	142
Samuel White	federalist	Delaware	I.	February 28, 1801	095	died November 4, 1809
Outerbridge Horsey	federalist	Delaware	I.	January 12, 1810	156	elected to succeed White
James A. Bayard	federalist	Delaware	II	November 13, 1804	124
William Harris Crawford	republican	Georgia	II	0November 7, 1807	143
John Milledge	republican	Georgia	III	June 19, 1806	132	President pro tempore resigned November 14, 1809
Charles Tait	republican	Georgia	III	November 27, 1809	154	elected to succeed Milledge
Buckner Thruston	republican	Kentucky	II	0March 4, 1805	129	resigned December 18, 1809
Henry Clay	republican	Kentucky	II	0January 4, 1810	134	elected to replace Thruston earlier in the 9th Congress
John Pope	republican	Kentucky	III	0March 4, 1807	138	President pro tempore
Samuel Smith	republican	Maryland	I.	0March 4, 1803	114
Philip Reed	republican	Maryland	III	November 25, 1806	133
James Lloyd	federalist	Massachusetts	I.	0June 9, 1808	144
Timothy Pickering	federalist	Massachusetts	II	0March 4, 1803	111
Nicholas Gilman	republican	New Hampshire	II	0March 4, 1805	127
Nahum Parker	republican	New Hampshire	III	0March 4, 1807	137	resigned June 1, 1810
Charles Cutts	Federalist a)	New Hampshire	III	June 21, 1810	158	elected to succeed Parker
John Lambert	republican	New Jersey	I.	0March 4, 1809	149
Aaron Kitchell	republican	New Jersey	II	0March 4, 1805	128	resigned March 12, 1809
John Condit	republican	New Jersey	II	March 21, 1809	117	elected to replace Kitchell earlier in 8th through 10th Congress
Obadiah German	republican	new York	I.	0March 4, 1809	148
John Smith	republican	new York	III	February 23, 1804	119 b
James Turner	republican	North Carolina	II	December 22, 1805	130 c
Jesse Franklin	republican	North Carolina	III	0March 4, 1807	086	earlier in the 6th to 8th Congress
Return Meigs	republican	Ohio	I.	December 12, 1808	145	resigned December 10, 1810
Thomas Worthington	republican	Ohio	I.	December 15, 1810	116	elected to replace Meigs earlier in the 8th and 9th Congresses
Stanley Griswold	republican	Ohio	III	May 18, 1809	152	appointed
Alexander Campbell	republican	Ohio	III	December 11, 1809	155
Michael Leib	republican	Pennsylvania	I.	0January 9, 1809	146
Andrew Gregg	republican	Pennsylvania	III	0March 4, 1807	135	President pro tempore
Francis Malbone	federalist	Rhode Island	I.	0March 4, 1809	150	died June 4, 1809
Christopher G. Champlin	federalist	Rhode Island	I.	June 26, 1809	153	elected to succeed Malbone
Elisha Mathewson	republican	Rhode Island	II	October 26, 1807	136 d
Thomas Sumter	republican	South carolina	II	December 15, 1801	105	resigned December 16, 1810
John Taylor	republican	South carolina	II	December 31, 1810	159	elected to succeed Sumter
John Gaillard	republican	South carolina	III	0December 6, 1804	125	President pro tempore
Joseph Anderson	republican	Tennessee	I.	September 26, 1797	070
Daniel Smith	republican	Tennessee	II	0March 4, 1805	079	resigned March 31, 1809 earlier in the 5th Congress
Jenkin Whiteside	republican	Tennessee	II	April 11, 1809	151	elected to succeed Smith
Jonathan Robinson	republican	Vermont	I.	October 10, 1807	141
Stephen R. Bradley	republican	Vermont	III	October 15, 1801	030th	earlier in the 2nd to 4th Congress
Richard Brent	republican	Virginia	I.	0March 4, 1809	147
William Branch Giles	republican	Virginia	II	August 11, 1804	120

• a) Cutts is also referred to as a Republican in some sources
• b) Smith is on the Senate list when he took office February 4th, but all other sources indicate that he is wrong
• c) Turner is listed in the Senate when he took office on March 4th, but all other sources indicate that this is incorrect
• d) Mathewson is included in the Senate list with inauguration March 4th, which is wrong according to all other sources

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dates of Sessions of the Congress , senate.gov, accessed July 5, 2020
2. ^ Party Division , www.senate.gov, accessed October 8, 2019
3. ↑ President Pro Tempore on senate.gov, accessed June 18, 2020
4. ↑ A Chronological Listing of US Senators , US Senate, PDF (approx. 356 kB), accessed June 19, 2020