List of Senate Members of the 13th United States Congress

The senators in the 13th Congress of the United States were one-third in 1812 and 1813 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 13th Congress ran from March 4, 1813 to March 3, 1815, its first session took place from May 24 to August 2, 1813 in Washington, DC , the second period from December 6, 1813 to December 18, 1813 April 1814 and the third period from September 19, 1814 to March 3, 1815.

Composition and changes

At the end of his term in office, there were 29 Republicans (now usually called the Democratic Republican Party ) and seven federalists in the 10th Congress . The federalist James A. Bayard from Delawre resigned at the end of the 12th Congress, another seat was lost to the federalists because the New Hampshire Parliament could not agree on a senator. The same thing happened to the Republicans in Maryland , and the federalists were able to capture a seat from the Republicans. The 13th Congress initially had 27 republican and six federalist members, three seats were vacant. The vacant seats were filled again shortly before or after the beginning of the first session, with the federalists being successful in each case, so that the ratio was reduced to 27 Republicans against nine federalists. The by-elections, which became necessary because of several resignations and two deaths, did not change anything until mid-1814. In June 1814, New Hampshire federalist Thomas W. Thompson was elected to replace the late Republican Nicholas Gilman , a ratio of 26 to ten. In December, the North Carolina Parliament elected Republican Francis Locke as Senator against his express will. Since Locke never took office, the ratio of votes at the end of the 13th Congress was effectively 25 to ten.

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. At the beginning of the 13th Congress Elbridge Gerry was Vice President, who died on November 23, 1814 as the second Vice President in office. 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 March 23, 1813, William Harris Crawford, elected by the 12th Congress, was president pro tempore, from November 6, 1813 to February 3, 1814, Joseph Bradley Varnum, and from April 18, 1814 to November 25 1814 and from November 25, 1814 to the end of the congress on March 3, 1815 John Gaillard , who remained this in the entire 14th Congress and in the 15th Congress until March 4, 1817. With Gerry's death, Gaillard would have been the successor of the president under the rules at the time, had he been canceled.

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, 1817, and those of class III until March 3, 1819. 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 .

senator	Political party	Country	class	date	Sen.	annotation
Samuel W. Dana	federalist	Connecticut	I.	May 10, 1810	157
Chauncey Goodrich	federalist	Connecticut	III	Oct 25, 1807	142	resigned May 1813
David Daggett	federalist	Connecticut	III	May 13, 1813	176	elected to succeed Goodrich
Outerbridge Horsey	federalist	Delaware	I.	Jan. 12, 1810	156
William H. Wells	federalist	Delaware	II	May 28, 1813	082	earlier in the 5th to 9th Congress
William Harris Crawford	republican	Georgia	II	Nov 7, 1807	143	President pro tempore resigned March 23, 1813
William Bellinger Bulloch	republican	Georgia	II	Apr 8, 1813	174	appointed to succeed Crawford
William Wyatt Bibb	republican	Georgia	II	Nov 6, 1813	179	elected to succeed Crawford
Charles Tait	republican	Georgia	III	Nov 27, 1809	154
George M. Bibb	republican	Kentucky	II	March 4, 1811	160	resigned August 23, 1814
George Walker	republican	Kentucky	II	Aug 30, 1814	184	appointed as successor to Bibb
William T. Barry	republican	Kentucky	II	Feb. 2, 1815	187	elected to succeed Bibb
Jesse Bledsoe	republican	Kentucky	III	March 4, 1813	169	resigned December 24, 1814
Isham Talbot	republican	Kentucky	III	Feb. 2, 1815	188	elected to succeed Bledsoe
James Brown	republican	Louisiana	II	Feb 5, 1813	168
Eligius Fromentin	republican	Louisiana	III	March 4, 1813	171
Samuel Smith	republican	Maryland	I.	March 4, 1803	114
Robert Henry Goldsborough	federalist	Maryland	III	May 21, 1813	177
James Lloyd	federalist	Massachusetts	I.	June 9, 1808	144	resigned May 1, 1813
Christopher Gore	federalist	Massachusetts	I.	May 5, 1813	175	elected to succeed Lloyd
Joseph B. Varnum	republican	Massachusetts	II	June 29, 1811	162 b	President pro tempore
Nicholas Gilman	republican	New Hampshire	II	March 4, 1805	127	died May 2, 1814
Thomas W. Thompson	federalist	New Hampshire	II	June 24, 1814	183	elected to succeed Gilman
Charles Cutts	Federalist a)	New Hampshire	III	June 21, 1810	158	appointed as his own successor
Jeremiah Mason	federalist	New Hampshire	III	June 10, 1813	178	elected to succeed Cutts
John Lambert	republican	New Jersey	I.	March 4, 1809	149
John Condit	republican	New Jersey	II	March 21, 1809	117	earlier in the 8th to 10th Congress
Obadiah German	republican	new York	I.	March 4, 1809	148
Rufus King	federalist	new York	III	March 4, 1813	022nd	earlier in the 1st to 4th Congress
James Turner	republican	North Carolina	II	22 Dec 1805	130 c
David Stone	republican	North Carolina	III	March 4, 1813	100	earlier in the 7th through 9th Congress resigned December 24, 1814
Francis Locke	republican	North Carolina	III	Dec 1814	180 d	elected to succeed Stone
Thomas Worthington	republican	Ohio	I.	Dec 15, 1810	116	earlier in the 8th and 9th Congresses resigned December 1, 1814
Joseph Kerr	republican	Ohio	I.	Dec 10, 1814	185	elected to succeed Worthington
Jeremiah Morrow	republican	Ohio	III	March 4, 1813	173
Michael Leib	republican	Pennsylvania	I.	Jan. 9, 1809	146	resigned February 14, 1814
Jonathan Roberts	republican	Pennsylvania	I.	Feb. 24, 1814	181	elected as successor by body
Abner Lacock	republican	Pennsylvania	III	March 4, 1813	172
William Hunter	federalist	Rhode Island	I.	Oct. 28, 1811	164
Jeremiah B. Howell	republican	Rhode Island	II	March 4, 1811	161
John Taylor	republican	South carolina	II	Dec 31, 1810	159
John Gaillard	republican	South carolina	III	Dec 6, 1804	125	President pro tempore
Joseph Anderson	republican	Tennessee	I.	26 Sep 1797	070
George W. Campbell	republican	Tennessee	II	Oct 8, 1811	163	resigned February 11, 1814
Jesse Wharton	republican	Tennessee	II	March 17, 1814	182	appointed to succeed Campbell
Jonathan Robinson	republican	Vermont	I.	Oct 10, 1807	141
Dudley Chase	republican	Vermont	III	March 4, 1813	170
Richard Brent	republican	Virginia	I.	March 4, 1809	147	died December 30, 1814
James Barbour	republican	Virginia	I.	Jan. 2, 1815	186	elected to succeed Brent
William Branch Giles	republican	Virginia	II	Aug 11, 1804	120	resigned March 3, 1815

• Republicans called members of the mostly as today Democratic-Republican Party or Jeffersonian Republicans party designated
• a) Cutts is also referred to as a Republican in some sources
• b) Varnum is included in the list of the Senate when he took office on June 8th, but this is wrong according to all other sources
• c) Turner is listed in the Senate when he took office on March 4th, but all other sources indicate that this is incorrect
• d) Locke was elected against his will and never took office, so there is no exact date

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. ^ A New Nation Votes, North Carolina 1814 U.S. Senate, Special, Ballot 11 , January 11, 2012, accessed July 17, 2020
4. ↑ President Pro Tempore on senate.gov, accessed June 18, 2020
5. ↑ A Chronological Listing of US Senators , US Senate, PDF (approx. 356 kB), accessed June 19, 2020