List of Senate Members of the 17th United States Congress
The senators in the 17th Congress of the United States were one-third in 1820 and 1821, newly 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 17th Congress ran from March 4, 1821 to March 3, 1823. Its first session was from December 3, 1821 to May 8, 1822 in Washington, DC , the second period from December 2, 1822 to March 3, 1823.
Composition and changes
At the end of his term in office, there were 38 Republicans (now mostly called the Democratic Republican Party ) and eight federalists in the 16th Congress . In the election, the federalists lost three seats to the Republicans, one more seat because the Delaware parliament was unable to agree on a candidate. For the same reason, the previously Republican seats of Pennsylvania and Tennessee initially remained vacant. This resulted in a majority of 39 Republicans against four federalists, three seats were vacant. One of the vacant seats was filled before the beginning of the first session, and Missouri became the 24th state to join the Union. With Republicans winning all of these elections, their majority rose to 42 to four. The two remaining vacant seats could also be won by Republicans, so that a majority of 44 Republicans sat across from the four federalists for most of the 17th Congress. The by-elections caused by two deaths and several resignations did not change that. The seat of Caesar A. Rodney , who resigned at the end of January 1823, was not reoccupied until the end of the 17th Congress, so that in the end there were 43 Republicans and four Federalists in the Senate, one seat was vacant.
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. Daniel D. Tompkins served as Vice President during the 17th Congress . 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 December 2, 1821, John Gaillard, elected by the 16th Congress, was president pro tempore; he continued to hold office from December 3 to December 27, 1821, from February 1 to December 2 1822, from February 19 to the end of the Congress on March 3, 1823, and in the 18th Congress to November 30, 1823.
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, 1827, those of class II until March 3, 1823, and those of class III until March 3, 1825. 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 |
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William R. King | republican | Alabama | II | Dec 14, 1819 | 232 | |
John Williams Walker | republican | Alabama | III | Dec 14, 1819 | 233 | resigned December 12, 1822 |
William Kelly | republican | Alabama | III | December 12, 1822 | 252 | elected to succeed Walker |
Elijah Boardman | republican | Connecticut | I. | March 4, 1821 | 242 | |
James Lanman | republican | Connecticut | III | March 4, 1819 | 224 | |
Caesar A. Rodney | republican | Delaware | I. | Jan. 24, 1822 | 251 | resigned January 29, 1823 |
Nicholas Van Dyke | federalist | Delaware | II | March 4, 1817 | 211 | |
Freeman Walker | republican | Georgia | II | Nov 6, 1819 | 229 | resigned August 6, 1821 |
Nicholas Ware | republican | Georgia | II | Nov 10, 1821 | 248 | elected to succeed Walker |
John Elliott | republican | Georgia | III | March 4, 1819 | 223 | |
Jesse B. Thomas | republican | Illinois | II | 3 Dec 1818 | 221 | |
Ninian Edwards | republican | Illinois | III | 3 Dec 1818 | 222 | |
James Noble | republican | Indiana | I. | Dec 11, 1816 | 201 | |
Waller Taylor | republican | Indiana | III | Dec 11, 1816 | 202 | |
Richard mentor Johnson | republican | Kentucky | II | Dec 10, 1819 | 230 | |
Isham Talbot | republican | Kentucky | III | Oct. 19, 1820 | 188 | earlier in the 13th to 15th Congress |
Henry Johnson | republican | Louisiana | II | Jan. 12, 1818 | 216 | |
James Brown | republican | Louisiana | III | March 4, 1819 | 168 | earlier in the 12th to 14th Congress |
John Holmes | republican | Maine | I. | June 13, 1820 | 237 | |
John Chandler | republican | Maine | II | June 14, 1820 | 238 | |
William Pinkney | republican | Maryland | I. | Dec. 21, 1819 | 234 | died February 25, 1822 |
Samuel Smith | republican | Maryland | I. | December 16, 1822 | 114 | elected to replace Pinkney earlier in the 8th through 13th Congress |
Edward Lloyd | republican | Maryland | III | Dec. 21, 1819 | 235 | |
Elijah H. Mills | federalist | Massachusetts | I. | June 12, 1820 | 236 | |
Harrison G. Otis | federalist | Massachusetts | II | March 4, 1817 | 210 | resigned May 30, 1822 |
James Lloyd | federalist | Massachusetts | II | June 5, 1822 | 144 | elected to replace Otis earlier in the 10th to 13th Congresses |
David Holmes | republican | Mississippi | I. | Aug 30, 1820 | 239 | |
Thomas Hill Williams | republican | Mississippi | II | Dec 10, 1817 | 215 | |
Thomas Hart Benton | republican | Missouri | I. | Aug 10, 1821 | 247 | |
David Barton | republican | Missouri | III | Aug 10, 1821 | 246 | |
David L. Morril | republican | New Hampshire | II | March 4, 1817 | 209 | |
John Fabyan Parrott | republican | New Hampshire | III | March 4, 1819 | 227 | |
Samuel L. Southard | republican | New Jersey | I. | Jan. 24, 1821 | 241 | |
Mahlon Dickerson | republican | New Jersey | II | March 4, 1817 | 207 | |
Martin Van Buren | republican | new York | I. | March 4, 1821 | 245 | |
Rufus King | federalist | new York | III | March 4, 1813 | 22nd | earlier in the 1st to 4th Congress |
Montfort Stokes | republican | North Carolina | II | Dec. 4, 1816 | 200 | |
Nathaniel Macon | republican | North Carolina | III | Dec. 5, 1815 | 193 | |
Benjamin Ruggles | republican | Ohio | I. | March 4, 1815 | 189 | |
William A. Trimble | republican | Ohio | III | March 4, 1819 | 228 | died December 13, 1821 |
Ethan Allen Brown | republican | Ohio | III | Jan. 3, 1822 | 250 | Elected to succeed Trimble |
William Findlay | republican | Pennsylvania | I. | Dec 10, 1821 | 249 | |
Walter Lowrie | republican | Pennsylvania | III | March 4, 1819 | 226 | |
James De Wolf | republican | Rhode Island | I. | March 4, 1821 | 243 | |
Nehemiah R. Knight | republican | Rhode Island | II | Jan. 9, 1821 | 240 | |
William Smith | republican | South carolina | II | Dec. 4, 1816 | 199 | |
John Gaillard | republican | South carolina | III | Dec 6, 1804 | 125 | President pro tempore |
John Henry Eaton | republican | Tennessee | I. | 5th Sep 1818 | 218 | |
John Williams | republican | Tennessee | II | Oct 10, 1815 | 192 | |
Horatio Seymour | republican | Vermont | I. | March 4, 1821 | 244 | |
William A. Palmer | republican | Vermont | III | Oct. 20, 1818 | 219 | |
James Barbour | republican | Virginia | I. | Jan. 2, 1815 | 186 | |
James Pleasants | republican | Virginia | II | Dec 10, 1819 | 231 | resigned December 15, 1822 |
John Taylor | republican | Virginia | II | Dec 18, 1822 | 38 | elected to succeed Pleasants earlier in 2nd, 3rd and 8th Congresses |
- Republicans called members of the mostly as today Democratic-Republican Party or Jeffersonian Republicans party designated
Individual evidence
- ^ Dates of Sessions of the Congress , senate.gov, accessed July 18, 2020
- ^ Party Division , www.senate.gov, accessed October 8, 2019
- ↑ President Pro Tempore on senate.gov, accessed June 18, 2020
- ↑ A Chronological Listing of US Senators , US Senate, PDF (approx. 356 kB), accessed June 19, 2020